Snapshots of an Ordinary Woman: To simply love

Thursday, February 7, 2008

To simply love

It's just been this past month or so that I've found my self Valentine's Day so much. Yeah, it's commercialized, it's overdone, it's expensive, and well, I've never had a good one. But when I think about all that, I'm not really seeing it for what it is. It's a National Holiday to LOVE. I mean, what other day is devoted to telling someone, you're significant other, your family, your friends that you LOVE them.?Not a birthday, not an anniversary, just a holiday all about love. Yeah, sometimes it's cheesy and overdone with the bright pink singing teddy bear, or the heart shaped box of chocolates, or the gold dipped rose that will eternally last, but really, when you get down to the heart of it, Valentine's Day is just to love.

When I looked up love on Bible Gateway there are 69 topical references, 31 instances, and that's not including the million verses associated with each one. Christ tells us that the greatest commandment is to Love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, and mind and to Love our neighbor (Mark 12: 29-31). Love comes from God (1 John 4:7), is patient and kind and not boastful and not proud and not rude and not self-seeking and not easily angered and keeps no records of wrong and does not delight in evil and rejoices in the truth and always protects and always perseveres and always trusts and alway hopes and NEVER fails. Love is the greater than faith and hope (1 Corinthians 13). And my favorite, LOVE is stronger than death (Song Of Soloman 8:6). How can I hate Valentine's Day when it's simply a day to love and love is all these things?

All commercialized things thrown aside, God ordained this one day, one day a year, when we can express how much we love those people in our lives; and maybe even show love to someone we don't know. Valentine's Day has a lot of preparation for some people, they make it a week long, a month long thing. It makes me think about how much love goes into one day. Why on earth would I want to miss that? A simple chance to love. A chance to smile at all my cheesy love movies. A chance to be romantic, to not care if someone sees me kiss my lover. A chance to be moved by the love around me. A chance to express how I feel and a day dedicated only to that. Only to Love.

Love is a beautiful entity. A creation from the perfect artist, a gift from the ultimate lover. If we all loved, just simply loved, how beautiful this world would be.

I think I'm actually falling in love with February...
Maybe I'll even by some red balloons.

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"My life can only ever be a lesson to me. The four key things that it has taught me thus far:
After night comes day.
After death comes life.
Even at your darkest time look around because you are never really alone.
You are loved."
-Pack up the Moon

"Forget what happened before, and DO NOT think about the past. Look at the new thing I am GOING to do. It is already happening. Don't you see it?"
-Isaiah 43:18

"I am your refuge and your strength. Even though the earth gives way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, do not fear. I am an ever present help in trouble."
Psalm 46:1-3

"But pain is hard to put into words and in life there is always pain. It's natural as birth or death. Pain makes us who we are, it teaches us and tames us, it can destroy us and it can save. We all have regrets--Some tragedies are of our doing and then sometimes things happen that are out of this world's control and when it happens, it can take our breath away.
Happiness is a gift. It washes its warmth over us and reminds us of beauty."
-Pack up the Moon

"I am dying from grief; my years are shortened by sadness. Misery has drained my strength; I am wasting away from within. But I am trusting you, O Lord, saying. 'You are my God!' My future is in your hands."
-Psalm 31:10, 14-15

"There's nothing better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve."
- Og Mandino

"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. "
-Henry David Thoreau

"Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this: The unfailing love of the Lord never ends!"
-Lamentations 3:21

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I am a passionate about running.
It is in my soul.

"The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running."
-Nike running poster

"I ran to be free; I ran to avoid pain; I ran to feel pain; I ran our of love and hate and anger and joy."
-DAGNY SCOTT

"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing."
-GEORGE SHEENAN

"Learn to run when feeling the pain: then push harder."
-WILLIAM SIGEI

"Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be."
-DR. GEORGE SHEEHAN

"If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it."
-PRISCILLA WELCH

"Let me tell you something you already know. The world is a mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How muc you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if yo uknow what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit and not pointing fingers saying you ain't wher eyo uare because of him, or her, or anybody."
-ROCKY BALBOA

"You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move, to fire up that entire energy-producing, oxygen-delivering, bone-strengthening process we call running."
-FLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER and JON HANC

"Running is a thing worth doing not because of the future rewards it bestows, but because of how it feeds our bodies and minds and souls in the present."
-KEVIN NELSON

"Running is elementary. It is elegant in its simplicity."
-JOHN BINGHAM, The Courage To Start

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Thursday, February 7, 2008

To simply love

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