Happy Love Month!!

I am so blessed to have a home full of love, every year, every week, every hour, and almost every minute . . . we have our moments!!! LOL

I think I can honestly say Valentine's Day is actually my favorite holiday. I love the cards, conversation hearts, the flowers (hint, hint!!). And you can do sweet things for people and they barely expect it. So in our house Valentine's is big deal!! This year was no different. Charity and I made so many Valentines and the poor, little bugger signed most of them until she said, "Mom you can sign the rest of them for me." I bet she signed over 50, of course not all on the same day.

We made cupcakes for Charity's Kid's Club at church, which turned into a small catastrophe when Charity spilled all our red and white heart sprinkles on the floor. I quickly pulled out the Christmas red, white and green sprinkles since she was so upset about her mishap. I explained to her the green was for the rose stems Mommy gets from Daddy (hint, hint)!! Friday night was our Annual Love Party. It was so much fun!! Charity decided we needed to have a Valentine's Tree, after seeing some hanging hearts at Micheal's. They said "hanging ornaments" on the package so I guess we're not the only ones with this crazy idea. With Charity and I in charge of the decorating, Daddy cooked us up a yummy meal and Gramma was our guest. It was such a "lovely" evening, month actually!

1 Corinthians 13 demonstrates how we are to live and love. I am so blessed to have a constant little, "Charity" reminder in my life! This passage is from "The Message" translation.

1 Corinthians 13
The Way of Love
1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.

2 If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing.

3 -7 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.

Love never gives up.

Love cares more for others than for self.

Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.

Love doesn't strut,

Doesn't have a swelled head,

Doesn't force itself on others,

Isn't always "me first,"

Doesn't fly off the handle,

Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,

Doesn't revel when others grovel,

Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,

Puts up with anything,

Trusts God always,

Always looks for the best,

Never looks back,

But keeps going to the end.
8 -10 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
11 When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
12 We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly.