\u201cI have loved you with an everlasting love\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/em>\u00a0 Jeremiah 31:3<\/span><\/h3>\nValentine\u2019s Day<\/strong>, as celebrated in many Western countries, is supposed to be a day filled with gifts (usually candy and flowers<\/em>), lovingly worded greeting cards, and special acts of kindness. Yet for many people\u2014young and old\u2014it is a day marked by an aching heart. The single mother weighed down by burdens of responsibilities almost too heavy to bear. A widowed man sitting quietly in his rocker with only tears of memory as his companion. The young single woman wonders why she alone, among so many of her friends, is without a fiance or husband. The married couple who merely co-exist without a spark of passion. The candy is consumed, the flowers fade and many of the special acts are unfortunately replaced with less loving gestures.<\/p>\nWhat happens on February 15th?<\/strong> Is there a love that helps us bear our burdens, wipes our tears, satisfies our longings? Madeleine L \u2019Engle<\/strong> writes:<\/p>\n\n\u201cOne of our children when he was two or three years old used to rush at me when he had been naughty, and beat against me, and what he wanted by this monstrous behavior was an affirmation of love. And I would put my arms around him and hold him very tight until the dragon was gone and the loving small boy had returned. So God does with me. I strike out at Him in pain and fear and He holds me under the shadow of His wings. Sometimes He appears to me to be so unreasonable that I think I cannot live with Him, but I know that I cannot live without Him<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nThank you, Father, that your love doesn\u2019t depend on my worth or my reactions, that you loved me from before the beginning of time, that your love can fill all the empty spaces of my heart.<\/em><\/p>\nBy Marilyn Ehle<\/a>
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What happens on February 15th?<\/strong> Is there a love that helps us bear our burdens, wipes our tears, satisfies our longings? Madeleine L \u2019Engle<\/strong> writes:<\/p>\n \u201cOne of our children when he was two or three years old used to rush at me when he had been naughty, and beat against me, and what he wanted by this monstrous behavior was an affirmation of love. And I would put my arms around him and hold him very tight until the dragon was gone and the loving small boy had returned. So God does with me. I strike out at Him in pain and fear and He holds me under the shadow of His wings. Sometimes He appears to me to be so unreasonable that I think I cannot live with Him, but I know that I cannot live without Him<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Thank you, Father, that your love doesn\u2019t depend on my worth or my reactions, that you loved me from before the beginning of time, that your love can fill all the empty spaces of my heart.<\/em><\/p>\n By Marilyn Ehle<\/a> \u2022 What\u2019s Love Got to do with It?<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>by Norm Miller<\/p>\n \u2022 Two Keys to a Happy Marriage<\/a> <\/strong>by Kevin Miller<\/p>\n \u2022 Adhesive Qualities in a Marriage<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Glue only comes in one flavor<\/p>\n SUBSCRIBE BY EMAIL:<\/strong>\u00a0FOLLOW THIS LINK<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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