No Greater Love Than This

Today is Valentine's Day. I almost forgot, being out of school and away from it all. The hot commentaries just across the causeway is another reminder that Valentine's Day is NOT always a day of love. Anyway, to me it is not a religious celebration and never was. It is just a day to commemorate love - pure love.

I don't quite remember the story but it had something to do with a priest named Valentine being jailed and forming a pure relationship with the jailer's blind daughter. Well, that is it for me. Valentine's Day to me is a reminder that pure love exists. To me it is about remembering to show love for your parents, siblings and friends.

Tough to do, especially our Lord's command to "love thy neighbour as thyself". Very tough. Easy to love the nice people around us ... but that noisy, grouchy old neighbour? Hmmm ... different story. Love thy enemies? Wow! Even harder! But when we pause to think about it - who are our enemies? Do we really have enemies?

Finally, for me - there is no greater love than the love of our Father who laid down his life for us. I quote from John 15:13 "Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends".

Happy Valentine's Day. Let us be reminded to love someone today ... and every day.