Just a Few Thursday Thoughts

When I was in grade school I used to anticipate Valentine’s Day even more than I did when I was older.  Ironically, it was when I was young something  magical or surprising would happen on that day, almost  every year after Grade 3 especially in my last few years before high-school.  Now that I look back those were innocently fun times.  I was hardly ever or maybe even never a girl who had tactics under her sleeve and I let love roll right on in if it did and discerned about boys with prayer (when I remembered to LOL).  I’ve learned a lot of right and unlearned a lot of wrong in the last two decades of being “love” aware.  I don’t deal BIG on Valentine’s but I’m not one of those anti-hearts-day people either.  I just happen to believe it’s people who make Valentine’s Day special, not the other way around.  I’m pretty neutral about it because well, for one I don’t think we need just one day to go all out and express love, it can be any day and everyday but at the same time it’s still lovely to have a certain time of year to look forward to.  I pray that people learn to never regard Valentine’s Day as just an excuse to do finally do something affectionate but see it as another more obvious opportunity to love someone.