On Wednesday,
February 14, people throughout the United States and in many other regions of the world will celebrate Valentine’s Day. It’s a day to highlight romantic love as well as to commit to loving all of humanity.
The origins of this celebration are obscure. But the day’s current significance in the world of retail sales is unquestionable—particularly in the realm of greeting cards and chocolate! Two or three weeks before Christmas Day, shelves in many retail outlets are already being dedicated to Valentine products and displays.
This Valentine’s Day, Graceworx Community Church urges all in our community to do something special for their significant other. But also, let’s harness the potential of this much-marketed celebration to reflect on how we can be more loving, caring, and compassionate toward all with whom we come in contact.
May the following quotes serve as a reminder and an inspiration:
1. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”—Victor Hugo
2. “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”—Zora Neale Hurston
3. “Nobody has ever measured—even poets—how much a heart can hold.”—Zelda Fitzgerald
4. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”—Oprah Winfrey
5. “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.”—Jane Austen
6. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”—Robert Frost
7. “The giving of love is an education in itself.”—Eleanor Roosevelt
8. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”—Victor Hugo
9. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”—Lao Tzu
10. “We are most alive when we are in love.”—John Updike
11. “The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”—Henry Miller
12. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”—David Viscott
13. “Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.”—Rumi
14. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”—Robert A. Heinlein
15. “Love is friendship that has caught fire.”—Ann Landers
16. “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it, but you can feel it.”—Nicholas Sparks
17. “You always gain by giving love.”—Reese Witherspoon
Graceworx is a non-denominational congregation that conducts its worship services each Saturday morning at 11:30 a.m. at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 9913 Bear Lake Road, Apopka, FL 32703. An Adult Bible Study meets in the church’s boardroom at 10:00 AM.
For more information about Graceworx, phone 321-228-4599 or email graceworxcc@gmail.com.
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