Valentine's Day

Today is Valentine's Day… the day of love.
People either love or hate this holiday.
If you are married, engaged, dating, or in some kind of romantic relationship you tend to have more positive feelings for this holiday. But, if you are single or without a "special someone" you tend to bash this holiday and wish that it didn't exist.
I am married and I don't really love or hate Valentine's Day. It's just another day for me where roses happen to be triple in price and restaurants are so packed you can't eat out unless you want to eat dinner at 8pm or later.
My opinion is if someone loves you or cares about you, they don't need one day out of 365 designated for them to show you or tell you how they feel.
I feel like in most cases the holiday causes woman in relationships to have too high of expectations for how the day should go, which causes the man to be set up for failure because he can never meet the woman's fantasized romantic expectations.
For the single people I feel like in most cases it causes them to become bitter, angry, and not pleasant to be around that day. They see posts on social media about how great everyone's significant other is, or sappy posts on people's facebook wall declaring their love for each other. They have to witness co-worker's being sent flowers, balloons, chocolates, and teddy bears. It magnifies their feelings of being alone and makes them wonder if they will ever find "the one".

Today I want to encourage everyone to celebrate Valentine's Day. I don't mean celebrate it in the romantic way with a significant other, I mean show people what love truly means this Valentine's Day. God showed us the ultimate way to love by giving up His son to die for our sins so that we might be saved. There are so many different ways Jesus shows us how to love one another in the Bible. Let's follow His example and be examples of His love today. Here is a blog I posted yesterday on Ten Ways To Love. It might give some ideas on how to demonstrate God's love to others. Let's make this the best Valentine's Day yet.