Valentine's Day?

We enjoy celebrating in our home. We find all kinds of reasons to have a party! We, of course, have the traditional holidays that most American's acknowledge but we have "edited" them to our liking. We have also created our own reasons to throw a party. Do you remember Faith's Halfway Celebration? We have also celebrated things like new shoes with a song and dance and going out to dinner because of the blessing of a pay raise. We have a special day we remember each of our children in Heaven and we have a HUGE celebration when a child turns double digits, just to name a few! But it wasn't until we have had adult children in our home being "held against their will to the expectations of the world" that we changed the name of Valentine's Day to Single's Awareness Day! (I know the story of the roots of Saint Valentine but adding chocolate to the day was surely done by a woman, right?)

Now we use this opportunity to try to consider both the hearts of the young adults choosing to wait on the Lord's timing for their Covenant Keeper and their circumstances as well as others who are single again. We have pictured it as kind of how having a Mother/Daughter Banquet leaves out mommy's with sons or sadly, wives without earthly children of their own. I dislike when circumstances simply leave someone out! So, we take flowers to my aunt that isn't married and have added another aunt to our list since the death of her husband as well as others.

Isn't it suppose to be about showing LOVE? What ideas do you have to share love on or around that day that can be so difficult for others?