{"id":13841,"date":"2021-02-03T04:55:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T10:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=13841"},"modified":"2021-02-03T04:56:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T10:56:14","slug":"just-sharing-the-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=13841","title":{"rendered":"Just Sharing the Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aw! February — the LOVE month \u2013 my month of nostalgia. I remember those little Valentine\u2019s cards we\u2019d place in our class friends\u2019 decorated shoe boxes. Oh, the anticipation of getting a card that a boy liked me, even if it was the pre-printed words on a cat-themed card: \u201cWill you be MY meow-entine?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just a few years later, I had a real \u201cmeow-entine\u201d when my 13-year-old boyfriend (later, my husband) was my \u201cdate\u201d at my church\u2019s Valentine banquet via his dad and mom chauffeuring us. Be still my heart. He smelled so good and looked so good, too. I wore the cut-off version of the dress I wore in my cousin\u2019s wedding. Taller than him, he took the next step up. Obviously, corsages were \u201cin\u201d and he gave me a humongous one. Ever since then, February has been the love month to me. Even though my sweetheart celebrates it in heaven, I get to celebrate right here and now with you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I know for many this is just another month of the calendar and all the hoopla about Valentine\u2019s Day and all the mushy stuff is just not on their radar. But, maybe after all the rancor, debate, and negativity of the last several months, we can turn over a new leaf and make this a month of love wherever we are and for whoever we are with \u2013 online OR in person. I\u2019m taking it up a notch and determining that February is a LOVE month for everyone I encounter. Sometimes we get so caught up in our daily routines, we forget to let those close to us know how much we love and appreciate them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s why it\u2019s so awesome to be in God\u2019s family. Not because we are a \u201cclick\u201d or \u201cclub” unto ourselves. It\u2019s because we resemble our Father. We act like Him. We talk like Him. We walk like Him. We forgive like Him. We LOVE like Him. That\u2019s why our character and our love-walk should speak volumes over those who are outside \u201cthe family\u201d. God wants His family to be known for its love more than anything else. Jesus said our love for each other \u2013 not our religious beliefs \u2013 is our greatest witness to the world. \u201cYour strong love for each other will PROVE TO THE WORLD that you are My disciples.\u201d John 13:35.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pandemic caused us to hide out from others. But\u2019s it\u2019s time to COME OUT! Maybe not completely in a kumbaya sense of hugging each other just yet, but coming out in phone calls, text messages, donating to charities, sharing the love on social media. The greatest love is shown by our words and actions because God’s LIGHT of LOVE in us is what the world needs NOW. Let\u2019s be LOVE show-offs no matter how we do it. When Jesus said \u201cGo into all the world to preach the good news\u201d, I wonder if He was imagining our high-tech world that we could GO online and take the good news around the world to those who need the \u201clove\u201d message so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life really is all about love. It matters most. It takes top priority. So, let\u2019s be LOVE show-offs and make Jesus famous through our love walk and talk!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 John 4:7 “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aw! February — the LOVE month \u2013 my month of nostalgia. I remember those little Valentine\u2019s cards we\u2019d place in our class friends\u2019 decorated shoe boxes. Oh, the anticipation of getting a card that a boy liked me, even if it was the pre-printed words on a cat-themed card: \u201cWill you be MY meow-entine?\u201d Just…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19769,19768],"tags":[1210,7748,1769,3306,803,3827,40,12491,3598,965,19767,19766,19765,19764,6476,3729],"class_list":["post-13841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-february-love-month","category-sharing-love","tag-blog","tag-cat","tag-christian","tag-disciples","tag-family-of-god","tag-february","tag-inspiration","tag-kumbaya","tag-love-month","tag-love-one-another","tag-love-top-priority","tag-meow","tag-nostalgia","tag-sharing-love","tag-valentines-cards","tag-valentines-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13844,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13841\/revisions\/13844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}