Happy Valentine's Day!!

I absolutely LOVE a good love story!!!! There's nothing quite as fulfilling to me as watching a TV series, watching a movie, or reading a book and seeing the right guy end up with the right girl. :-) And yes, I always decide who I think the right people are in each plot. So, the way I rate a show/movie/book is whether or not the author(s) agreed with me on how it should end. For example, those of you who watched the WB show Felicity several years back, know (as I do) that the WRONG TWO PEOPLE ended up together . . . I still stand by my belief (as it plays on in reruns) that Felicity and Noel should have gotten together in the end! This disagreement between me and the author(s) has forever tainted that show in my mind. :)

Mema & Papa Joe walking hand in hand on Ocracoke Island

Anyways, love stories are great! I've been SO blessed to have Godly parents who've demonstrated God's plan for a marriage my whole life. This is not to say that they're perfect and have never had trials because they're not and they have. (I'm not saying anything that they wouldn't say themselves.) But, watching their marriage over the years has given me a glimpse into what I want one day.

Mom & Dad in front of Bode Island Lighthouse

God hasn't yet given me the man He wants me to spend the rest of my life with, and that's okay. It just shows me that He's still working on both of us to make us into the right people for each other!! :-) Until then, I have the perfect (at least one side of it's perfect!) love story to enjoy and be grateful for . . . Christ coming to save me from ALL (and there are MANY) my sins! To borrow a quote from I'm not sure who, it's truly the "greatest love story ever told". I don't know anything about St. Valentine who got this fun chocolate & flower filled day named after him, but I do know that the real reason we can celebrate our love for others is NOT because of him. It's because of God's love for us.

"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us." -1 John 4:7-12

"For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations." -Psalm 100:5

I hope you have a wonderful Valentine's Day! Whether you're with the right one God has set aside for you to spend the rest of your life with or if you're waiting with me for God to let your path cross the path of your right one, we can all celebrate the joy of HIS perfect, never-ending love!