Happy Valentine's Day

Usually I don't celebrate Valentine's Day; I saw it as another stupid consumer holiday created for the sake of Hallmark's profit. But this year I'm glad to finally have learned the history, and yes, as cliché as it sounds, the true meaning behind Valentine's Day...or at least before it became a consumer holiday. Anyways my point is this Valentine's Day was different.

Walking into Herald Gospel Camp Reunion late today, I was so glad I didn't miss praise time. While the group was small, it didn't matter because what I saw was people who had come together as a family to worship the God we loved. Just one guitar and our voices...we simply smiled, sang, shouted, laughed, clapped, danced - a taste of heaven. There were no formailities; no worrying about singing out of tune nor turn, but declaring loud and bold that Your love is all I need, Jesus You're all I need.

Then Eugene gave a message about how God is faithful despite how we cheat on Him. I'm inspired to read the book of Hosea now haha. This is also the part where I learned about the history behind Valentine's Day. So during times of war soldiers aren't allowed to marry and so any soldier who was involved with a girl would be thrown in jail. And there was this priest, St. Valentine, who would marry these couples in jail. However, the true love story isn't about the couples, because there were a lot of Saint Valentine's (like about 40), and every single one of them were martyrs. They died for the one true worthy love - God's love.

After reunion was over I headed over to CCHC where I got into continuing my conversation with Eugene about my possible future in psychology. While we talked a lot of possible career choices, college, etc. the main thing I got out of it was that I should relax and trust in God. Walking home that day I felt such an inner peace; the verse "Be still and know that I am God" (psalm 46:10) was reverberating in my head.

That was the best day I've had in a while, and definitely the best Valentine's Day I've had so far.