Comments on: This Valentine’s Day, Give Extravagant Love

By: One Week Until Valentine's Day | Hot, Holy & Humorous

One Week Until Valentine's Day | Hot, Holy & Humorous — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 17:44:23 +0000

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By: Eric Wiggin

Eric Wiggin — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:35:06 +0000

I think the bottom line, on Valentine’s Day or the other 364, is found in Jesus’ reference to the Second Greatest Commandment: to love your neighbor as yourself. IOW, treat your spouse the way you would wish to be treated. Once we learn to practice this in a Christian marriage the intimacy increases day-by-day, year-by-year.

By: William

William — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 05:20:48 +0000

I so love this stuff
It has helped reconnect my wife and I
Thanks for what you do

By: J

Fri, 15 Feb 2019 01:17:28 +0000

In reply to Eric Wiggin. Aw, how lovely!

By: Eric Wiggin

Eric Wiggin — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 00:18:02 +0000

I was the nerd in grade school, so as a child I learned to hate Valentine’s Day. Our teacher always had a box to put our cards in, and I was one of a few who never got one (we had the same teacher for three years). But my Dad, however, always remembered Mother, and one year he got her chocolates in an red enameled heart-shaped steel box, which she used for keepsakes many years after the Lord took him home.

In mid-February, when we both were in college (not sure it was Valentine’s Day, but close), I was walking my date, Dottie, home in a snowstorm from an evening of playing cards with a married couple of students. I proposed. Her answer was that she needed to pray about it.

Then in March, during Spring Break, I visited her home in Michigan, and we climbed Mt. Garfield, a huge sand dune on the shore of Lake Michigan. At the top, with the blue of the lake spread to the horizon before us, Dot reminded me of that evening a month earlier. She then said “Yes,” and grabbed me and kissed me. We were married a year later in June 1963, 56 years ago. And we still kiss–a lot. And, oh yeah, I bought her a heart box of chocolates this week. I still haven’t found a metal heart box, though. Eric

By: J

Wed, 13 Feb 2019 19:58:15 +0000

In reply to Katy. Congratulations! Praying for you and your upcoming nuptials!

By: Katy

Katy — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 18:02:06 +0000

Thank you so much for this post. I’m engaged to my wonderful fiance. We’re in a long-distance relationship and soooooo ready to be married but also committed to waiting until marriage (8 more months!). At this stage in our relationship, it can be tricky navigating fully showing my love on Valentine’s Day while still maintaining the boundaries we’ve set in place. Your reminder about extravagant love reminds me that I can show my love by surrendering myself to God and giving my fiance the daily gift of lifting him up in prayer, showing him how much I respect the man of God he is, and showering him with words of encouragement. Thank you again!

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 06:53:54 +0000

In reply to Dan.

Dan,

I couldn’t agree more.

We don’t have to spend a ton of money going on a cruise or vacation or buying a single rose on a special occasion and then personally giving them to the ones we love. We don’t spend any money at all going through scrap books, cooking dinner and washing dishes together, going on a drive or falling asleep in one another’s arms at night, because ultimately we are spending time with our spouse.

I like Valentines Day, whereas I’m sure there are ones may not look at it the same way as my wife and I do. Some may go all out while others won’t or can’t, which I think that’s ok.

Valentine’s Day It doesn’t mean one is any more or any less of a sweetheart to their spouse.

If my wife didn’t like Valentine’s Day as much as she did,, she wouldn’t be dropping a little hint that she loves the scent of a rose 2 day’s before Valentine’s Day.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 04:50:17 +0000

I’m still in the camp of not celebrating Valentine’s Day. It’s too forced and not necessary. Kudos to those of you who celebrate it.

By: J

Tue, 12 Feb 2019 21:58:04 +0000

In reply to Dan. That's how I feel about it too!