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I cannot think of a Valentine’s when I wasn’t blessed with flowers and love!

I don’t know how many ‘agains’ I put here: you figure it out. We’ve been married thirty-six years AND WE WILL BE UNTIL WE’RE IN HEAVEN (people will not marry in Heaven.) But believe me brother (and sister) love can stay and it is supposed to! Take that devil!

THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF LOVE AND NOT JUST ONE KIND. As Christians, I believe, most of us first think of God’s love for us and our love for Him. Secondly, and naturally, comes the love of man and woman. Yes! Man and woman – husband and wife. And this is what I think of when I think of Valentine’s Day!

satan always takes biblical topics and perverts them! Truth always prevails: God’s Word never returns void and families cannot be eradicated! To the wise and learned who truly love Truth, (aka Jesus Christ) romance is biblical and it is a huge part of the ζωή life; that is, the God-kind of life. Marriage and the family is the center of God’s world.

Speaking as a married women for now more than half of my life, I am ever thankful for my wonderful husband, Duane, whom I met as a blind date! On first meeting he thought I was average and I didn’t think he was cute – until I got to know him. I soon felt he was a special man as I sat talking with him. It did not take long for me to become keenly aware this was a man I wanted to know him more. And so it goes – within a short time we were married and have been blessed by one another probably more than we know.

Now I don’t live in the dark – we have had situations and attacks: but the wise choose to grow in wisdom and love through their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And we have. And we do.

Let me tell you about some of our Valentine Days. The first one we missed – only because we had just met. That particular evening (thirty-seven years ago) a man called me; Duane was the only one I was seeing at that time. After several minutes of conversation I came to realize it was Roger. It’s not hard to understand I didn’t know it wasn’t my future husband because we had met only almost two weeks before and had only one date. I love how disappointed I was! I must have known something then! I had so much fun telling Duane how much I was disappointed it wasn’t him calling that Valentine’s night.

Another famous Valentine’s celebration was when he took me and our then-young children to White Castle! Oh! How his friends taunted him that I wouldn’t like it! Ha on them! Duane knows me! A very sweet lady served us right to our table. There was a tablecloth —– and chocolate! I tell you folks, it was such a sweet idea. Of course, you must be figuring it out – I love White Castles! We still speak of this Valentine’s supper once in a while – must have been about twenty-five years ago! And the other super-fun part was Duane having immense pleasure in telling his friends: “You were wrong! I TOLD YOU she’d love it!” It’s such a gift to know the likes and dislikes of your spouse!

A more recent favorite Valentine’s Day of mine always makes me giggle! You know friends, a wife has radar (and all the husbands say: “Amen!”) I had gone to bed and Duane hadn’t. After a while I heard him go into the office and get flowers. I knew it! I heard it! When he wasn’t around I ‘snuck’ out of bed and went immediately and intensely to the dining table. I knew they were there – but I HAD TO SEE THEM! Roses! RED ROSES OF COURSE! I had SO MUCH FUN! I jumped up and down like a Christmas-expecting child with joy and delight! I also had to relate to Duane how much fun I had scoping them out! He was a little disappointed I found them too soon: but what gift is every really too soon?! I comforted him with the fact that I knew – but I had to see -because I was so thrilled – I refused to wait.

But wait for him – I did – I wouldn’t marry just anybody and I wasn’t willing to settle. I wanted a good man; a man I knew would be a wonderful husband and a spectacular Daddy! I waited and I received. (I also wanted a man with brown eyes!)

God is my first love – and it is not good for man to be alone. I needed Duane all my life. Ever since I was a little girl I played house. Some of my dreams included living alone in my own apartment for awhile before I ever got married, I did: working as a secretary. I did. Then, when I got married I wanted to have children later, not right away. I wanted that time with just my second love for a while. Then, I wanted to raise two boys and two girls. I have been blessed to raise one son and two daughters. (You might want to read about our child in Heaven we named Jesse. Jesse died three months into the pregnancy and immediately shot right up to Heaven. His story is found in JOY STORIES VOLUME ONE, entitled IN HONOR OF JESSE.)

Yes, Valentine’s Day has always been a day for me to remember that I am blessed to be loved by a true man of God and that he treats me as Christ treats the church – and yes – women – I do submit to him as I should in Christ. God’s ways are higher than ours – don’t be stupid and take a husband you can henpeck! A blessed Valentine’s Day is God’s way!

 

VALENTINE’S DAY IS OVER…       OR IS IT?

 

 

 

SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS FROM THIS “JOY STORY”:

 

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs^[ and then closed up the place with flesh.  Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.  (Genesis 2:18; 20-25)

 

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.  (John 8:44)

 

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.  (Genesis 1:26-28)

 

 

 

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