Love Letters.

 

I just finished reading the most amazing "love letter" written by my husband to me. It's two sentences hand-written on a 3x4inch piece of scrap paper. I think these words are the most special he has ever, in all our 17 years together, told me. I will truly cherish them forever.
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I have another Valentine, written by another man.....my Heavenly Father.
Sweet, life-sustaining God-breathed words;

John 15
⁹ “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. ¹¹ I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. ¹² My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command. ¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. ¹⁷ This is my command: Love each other.

Psalm 36 

⁵ Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the skies.
⁶ Your righteousness is like the highest mountains,
your justice like the great deep.
You, Lord, preserve both people and animals.
⁷ How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!
People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
⁸ They feast on the abundance of your house;
you give them drink from your river of delights.
⁹ For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light.

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And there's so much more, just skim your Bible, they're there, all throughout!

 

The sweetest reminders that I am (we are!) cherished, loved, and covered.

 

It is the perfect day to be reminded that no matter what human love is or isn't in your life, there is God-love. The greatest and strongest love there is.

 

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I just finished writing my own love letters. To my husband and my children. Each one reminding them not only how I love them, but why. Even though my little ones can't read yet. I pray these letters make it through the years; that one day, just when they need it, they will find them and be reminded of the love I have for them, now and forever more. But even more than that, God loves them and created them each for a special purpose.

 

I pray that if nothing else, my life reminds them (all my loved ones) of that very fact.

 

Happy Valentine's day friends!

 

Until next time.