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LOVE day

commercials, cards, gifts - everyone is shouting "EXPRESS YOUR LOVE"
...on this one day of the year...
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. Colossians 3:14

and i say, let's embrace it!
i love this LOVE.
this precious gift. straight from the Heavenly Father to us.
for HIM, for our lovers, for our children, family and friends.
LOVE. i'm in love with it.
because in the end it's all about HIM.

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 1 John 3:16

without HIS love i certainly wouldn't have much love for that husband of mine that forgets to take out the trash or doesn't unload the dishwasher {not very often, i must say}.

without HIS love i certainly wouldn't love that boy of mine that chooses to scream at me most of dinner prep time.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. John 3:16-17

without HIS love it would be near impossible to love friends and family that easily disappoint.

without HIS love anger, bitterness, and unforgivable easily become my attitude.
 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:7-8

so celebrating the LOVE day isn't about expressing love because i'm being told to.
it's about THANKFULNESS for the love i do have. from HIM, for others, from others. 

 And Jesus said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 22:37–40

Loving This Mantle...

In the spirit of LOVE Day I decorated our mantle... And in my opinion it's super cute!

A View of The Whole Thing



Close-Ups

1. I tied ribbon, in various fashion around dollar store candles

2. Red Picture Frame w/ picture of Manny and I in front of the LOVE sign in New York City [already had it :)]

3. X O X O - cardboard letters from Hobby Lobby w/ TONs of glitter & ModPodge

4. Black Picture Frame w/ pink paper & {suppose to have cute v-day word art, but never got it.... maybe next year}

5. Banner - Pink & Red Ribbon with Book Paper Hearts & handmade paper and felt flowers at the tops Well, Happy Love Day!!!


Now I'll just be super sad when I have to take it down - tomorrow. Manny says so.