A Valentine Card From God to You

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At Light Bearer's ARISE program, I was taught that God is love. During one very meaningful class moment, we read through 1 Corinthians 13 replacing "love" with God. I think this is something everyone should do; for best effect, read the passage aloud.

God is patient and God is kind.

God does not envy; He does not boast and is not proud.

God does not dishonor others and He is not self-seeking.

God is not easily angered—He keeps no record of wrongs. God does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

God always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

God never fails.

I AM BEAUTIFUL feat. Kameron Carter and Cassie Matchim

I'm part of a ministry called BOOMMINISTRIES. We take the talents of others and give them a media platform to share them with fellow Christians. This is our latest video for the Valentine's season. A poem about beauty standards inside the church that ends with Jesus' affirming His interest in our personhood, and not appearance.

http://youtu.be/c9asHr5p8UQ

A celebration, why not?

A picture of the crew post concert. (Photo by me) On this Valentine’s day, a common time yet an uncommon emphasis.

We need more romance songs not ending in a scene of fornication.

I only wish I could help ghostwrite some.

Sadly, my music gene decided to never express itself.

Never, in the Hebrew sense, for I trust in the age to come, voices will ring and mine will be among them.

And on that day, perhaps my celebration of love will be fuller, not just limited to words.

You know, traveling with two married couples as part of Songs of Ascent, I thought I would be uncomfortable or awkward being the fifth wheel. However, this has not been the case. I watch cute idiosyncrasies of their romantic story, I watch the way they smile in pride, I watch the familiarity and peace, I watch and I rejoice. My heart is made glad, I am overwhelmed with excitement to see true love, the kind Corinthians 13 describes, in action.  And yes, perhaps it is unfortunate to have no one to share a meal with when we hit up a restaurant, but oh how fortunate it is to dwell in the sacredness of matrimony.

So many people rag on Valentine’s day. I see no honor in that.

It is an easy target, a large center with a soft underbelly.

May be we should seek to rejoice and celebrate love, to hold it up in awe and reverence.

Solomon wrote a song about it and God liked it enough to canonize it. Let us celebrate those who have done it right, those who are seeking to do it right, those whose marriages and romantic stories reflect the Bride and the oh-so-dashing Groom.

In a world full of affairs, adultery, incest, pedophilia, rape, and fornication, we need more  celebration of other-centered love.

Yes, it is just another common day, but why not seize it for an uncommon emphasis?