V-Day

Valentine's day is in the air - and all over the net. Hard to ignore! Shops, as usual, are exploiting the event to make a quick (big)buck by displaying strange and wonderful things in red and black.

In the past it really used to bug me that I was single on V-day. I have probably only received 3 cards in my life, and not much else. Used to hurt somewhat. Now - well, what the heck, it's just another day. Sure it's an excuse to obtain an extra dose of chocolate. Perhaps it should be renamed Chocolate Day to save us singles the hassle.

There are a couple of ideas out on the blogs this morning regarding The Day. Just wanted to point to two:

Some Christian Guy is going to be celebrating God's love (he's single) by a day of fasting and thankfulness. Nice new perspective there!

Jordan Cooper reminds us that chocolate comes from the hard work of some pretty horrific places - in fact some use child slaves to produce our indulgence. Something to consider.

As for me and my house - well, my son's all enthusiastic about making a card and celebrating. For his sake, I'm not going to ignore it, but am going to do something special for the day and buy him something delicious to munch (though I can't guarantee it's gonna be Fair Trade ingredients) and tell him how much I love him. We'll make a special meal too, including our famous condensed-milk and lemon pie for afters.

And for the rest of the day I'm going to try get us to focus our Sabbath on God's love, which is way, way better than anything anyone here on earth could offer us.

It's funny - the older (and singler) I get, the less having a Significant Other seems to matter to me. There are those who are desperate for a partner, who can't imagine being single forever. Me, well perhaps I'm just a hard-hearted old maid. But I really am happily single. It's been years since I've felt lonely and I ain't about to start trying to now.

But, as it's leap year I may just find a handsome stranger to suprise with a random kiss - beware! :)