Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Shade Tree Wisdom 2/14/12



So Happy Valentine's Day

          Valentine was a physician and priest, living and working on Rome under emperor Claudius.  He was martyred for his Christian faith in 270.  Legend has it that he left a message for his jailor’s child on an irregularly shaped piece of paper, hence the heart shape of today’s valentines.

          St. John in his first letter writes:
” In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.  11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.  12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.” 1 John 4, 10-12.

          On this Valentine's Day, why do we not determine to be as loving and as caring each day as we are this day?  Indeed, as St. John says, “If we love one another, God abides in us and His love is perfected in us.”

          Trust me, such a loving, caring, cherishing attitude will outlast any bouquet of roses or box of sweets that one may buy to celebrate this day.

          Try it, and be sure God will bless that, and enrich your life.

GPD 2/14/12

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