Happy Valentines Day...

Happy Valentines Day...today and everyday.

BECAUSE....JESUS CHRIST is our FIRST Valentine! He is Thee only Perfect LOVE. He loved us so much that He said, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do". So, Happy Valentines Day, with all of HIS richest of blessings.

Well, my day started off great....as each of our past 51 Valtentines day's together have been...., that is....counting my husbands and my.... 2 teen years of dating as well. ha ha

I began the day... by placing a VOICE mail recording on my husband's cell phone of our favorite song, "I'll love you... until the 12th of Never" by Johnny Mathis...dear old 50's/60's era of love songs. He LOVED IT.

He left for work at 5:30 AM ....and I awoke to a darling little stuffed, golden, fuzzy tiger with the cutest coal black little ears....as he was holding a huge valentines card and two red roses....representing the 'two of us...together' through it all.

Every year has been super and this was a great continuance. We have both always dearly loved the celebration of Valentines Day....everyday ....and the older that we get...the MORE we treasure every moment.

Yesterday we went to visit our dear, dear friends---he is now on Hospice---in a care center. We were PREPARED to put OUR BEST FACE forward with jokes and laughter.

We took goodies to this dear 90 yr. old Pastor (who truly never retired...just refired for Christ..ha ha) and his darling beautiful wife of 11 years younger. They dearly LOVED what we took them.....which was the cutest little white cuddling Bears (lovers) placed inside of a bouquet of fiber optic hearts and flowers...along with a huge box of VALENTINE'S COOKIES. (which he immediately had to eat and pass around...as he ate his favorite Blue Bell ice cream.)

He dearly loves cookies...food and laughter...in that order! ha ha Just kidding...his wife is the CENTER of earthly God given gifts! Like A Queen, Royalllll, so neat to watch.

She is rather renown Opera singer, been on Broadway, now retired of coarse but still is booked constantly in our area. And at her age, I think she is absolutely tops. They both are lead singers for the Baylor Senior Choir as well. They are just a picture perfect/cute Senior couple ...who both lost their 1st spouses to cancer about ten years ago. They KNOW the treasure of life...and show it moment by moment each day!!!

Today tho, he is on Hospice. This will their last Earthly Valentines day together and they are so wonderful to watch....amazing is a better word. Such an example for everyone.

He is a jokester....she is perfect Grace and poise---so opposite. Even tho he was in great pain...on heaviest of injected drugs...for bone cancer...from the top of his head to the tip of his toes....He was still able to joke and carry on... (set an example for everyone of Christ's power over death)

We teased him about 'getting out of that bed'....so he felt he HAD to prove how GREAT he still is...at 90+ years...SO....in his best 'store bought pajamas and wild colored SOCKS..ha ha... he said to me...in front of a large group of visitors to his room "look here Glory, see what I can STILL DO..."

He then kicked his leg up in the air....as if he was in a 'CHORUS-GIRL LINEUP in New York City. "See, St. Peter is not ready for me jes yet!!!"

Ha ha...needless to EVERYONE was rolling in laughter...at his antics...his age and his determination...yet obvious pain. He is such an inspiration and delight.

So, today, IN HONOR OF Bro. John & all Hospice and my widow/widower friends....I would like to dedicate a SPECIAL Valentines love song of "I'll love you... until the 12th of Never" !!!!

We will see each other again,...... some sooner than others...because of Jesus...for us....Heaven is just a Breath Away. We REALLY CAN LOVE EACH OTHER UNTIL THE 12TH OF NEVER!!!! Hooray.

Lord, help us all to REMEMBER that Jesus really is who He says he is....OUR FIRST VALENTINE...LOVE...and He is still with us to help carry us through all things.... THIS VALENTINES DAY.....AND....EVERY day in the future...for....ETERNITY.

Either way, because of Jesus-----WE WIN--- here.... or there!!! He is always with us and brings HIS PEACE which is beyond all understanding of man.

So, (to my blog-reading friends that do not write but are so kind).... from my heart to yours....... Happy Valentines Day, because Jesus is our Valentine, our Love, our Life and our Eternity. His promises are Sealed in Hearts.
And by the way..."Bro. John...Save a place for me/us.....We will sing again....:-)