Anti-Valentine's Day

I don’t know about you but i think Valentine’s Day is one of the worst holidays ever…

My reasoning, probably because I’m bitter every year when it comes around, but it’s always ended horribly for me.

This year was a little different. Forgive me for getting personal w you guys, there’s a point here I promise:

A while ago I was lamenting the fact that I dread Valentine’s Day every year to one of my close friends. He then proposed the idea of celebrating anti-Valentine/s Day, which I thought was brilliant. Where we go out and act like were celebrating but be bitter the whole time and talk about our problems in our love lives.

We followed through, got pizza and chatted for hours tonight and I can honestly say it was one of the best Valentine’s Days I’ve ever had.

But how? How can it be the best when we made it out to be the worst?

It’s all about your mindset.

I knew I was going to have dinner with a close friend that I don’t get to see as much as I’d like and we both were feeling the same way and we both were there for each other at the end of the day.

I love him, I really do, but not in the true Valentine spirit, but you know what, that’s okay!

Christ’s love is perfect and pure and I am so undeserving of it, just like this friendship I have, but I get to partake in it anyway, and THAT right there is worth celebrating (or anti-celebrating).

Wherever you are today, in a relationship, confused, single, heartbroken, or in love, look around you - there’s a reason to smile, a reason to love, a reason to live. Even if that reason might be chocolate, you are an inch closer to pure joy.

I encourage you, run to Jesus today, fall in his arms and pour your heart out to Him, you will not be disappointed.

1 Corinthians 13:8a “Love never fails…”