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Love Luv LoveWell it's that time of year again...... the shops are bulging with big red fluffy cards, small discrete cards, humorous verging on the obscene cards......all in praise of LOVE. Yes Valentine's Day approaches!! For women it's a very important occasion when the blokes who are sometimes not the best in the `I love you' stakes...... have the chance to buy a card and maybe go out for a candlelit meal to make up for things. Relationships and marriage are great. I am sure we can all think of people who seem to have `the perfect marriage'. People are not meant to live alone ... after all once God had created Adam, he realized he needed a partner and created Eve out of one of Adam's ribs so the bible says. You know the humorous response that after God has made Eve she had very little sleep for the first week. She kept getting up and checking that Adam still had all his other ribs !!! But is a burst of romance on Valentine's Day really enough? Look...... I am not knocking romance, but if the other 364 days of the year are `loveless' then all the flowers, cards, and meals out in the world are not going to be put right on one day. Love is fostered by the acts of kindness, the caring attitude, the commitment that people give to one another. That's true in friendships as well as romantic relationships. As a single person I am so appreciative of the acts of love my friends offer me. So what's the ideal attitude of love then? At weddings people often use the passage from 1 Corinthians 13 as their text
Now that's a set of values to live up to! It seems to me that these values are really encompassed in one sentiment of being `unselfish' in our relationships of love with one another. As naturally self centred humans, that's not easy to do!! I am always so moved by television reports that show acts of self sacrifice and love, the events like LIVE 8 that tried to heighten awareness of the needs of others crippled through debt constraints. I am also moved as a Christian by the act of love of God who sent Jesus to die on a cross for us, a painful death, a sacrificial death and a selfless death. Jesus was God's Valentine card of love to us, Wow! Cogges Parish | Other articles | 
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