Valentine’s Day seems to be a little over the top. Flowers, glitter, chocolate, cards. But all that craziness isn’t love. This is:
- Love is 10 phone calls in 3 days just to see how things are going when you can’t be there to offer a hug.
- Love is church families who turn out in droves just to hold your hand and hug your neck when you are sad.
- Love is every friend from your office stopping by to let you know they are thinking about you.
- Love is 7 grandkids and 12 greats who can chuckle over memories.
- Love is a quilt created by a mom and recreated 65 years later by a daughter-in-law, just to make you smile.
- Love is a big sister who will hold your hand and wrap her arm around you so that you can see Great Grandpa one more time.
- Love is in the prayers that you can’t hear but you know must be happening because you have such a sense of peace.
- Love is 4 little friends, holding hands, looking out across a cemetery, knowing they are sad, but not truly knowing why.
- Love is a husband that cries with you.
- Love is in the tiny stitches and prayers of baby quilts.
- Love is sandwich trays and chocolate cakes and cheese trays with “whole wheat crackers”.
- Love is in a rose from your Daddy (or Husband or Brother-in-Law or Uncle or Nephew) on a sorrowful day.
- Love is Christ Who laid down His Life for us that we might have Everlasting Life in Heaven with Him.
If you showed love to any of my family in the last few days, we thank you.