I thought I was all done blogging about V day when my good friend John (Pastor John of Living Hope Church) made this comment yesterday about how lame Valentine's Day is. He told the story of his 11th hour attempt to get a nice card (read it for yourself). I've done that (bad, bad, bad). So here's the deal . . . did you read John's blog? . . . we do or don't do things for a lot of reasons:
1) Being lead blindly by a commercialized society isn't cool.
2) We hate doing things when we know we aren't giving our best. (Ever heard the phrase, "If it isn't worth doing right then it isn't worth doing at all" ?)
3) Our personality and life experience doesn't elicit any feelings. (Some people's engines don't get started with cards - you could give my mother the world's ugliest card and if you wrote in it she would be thrilled; she could care less about what the card looked like).
I'm sure there are many more motives, but I so often find myself letting guilt stop me from doing or saying things that can bring such great messages of value to others. I love cards, but I find that often I don't prioritize early enough so that I can pick one that reflects how wonderful my sweetheart is. (The one I got Laura for our date Sunday, I found on NW 23rd about a month ago. My appointment hadn't arrived yet and I saw a little shop and thought of our Valentine's getaway. Good job Bruce - But the card I got this week for a friend I had to ask one of my sons to buy . . . how sad is that?) Keep friends very close in your heart.
Don't let your fear of being controlled by society, commercialism, or even the fact that you're only human slow you down from using every opportunity to show others how really wonderful they are. We are God's kids! We are beautiful one-of-a-kind living art! You know that right? (Check it out)
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