Hello all. Today is Valentine’s Day. I don’t have a Valentine. Ha.

Side Note: I heard it said that Valentine’s Day has one of the highest suicide rates of the year, so I decided to blog about that when I got home tonight. However, I looked it up on online, and that’s only a common misconception. Suicide rates aren’t much different.

I feel like Valentine’s Day is a make or break thing for many couples, because it’s so polarizing. A guy truly in love looks forward to Valentine’s Day because it will be a good excuse to do something amazing for the girl. And both people will benefit from that day. A guy not truly in love might see Valentine’s Day as the unneeded stress to live up to expectations and buy something better than what he got last year. In some cases, guys realize this stress, so they take the alternative. They break up with their girlfriends. Both people in those scenarios will not benefit from that day.

Today I was just sitting there at Jack’s Grill thinking about them. Thinking about all the people who were going to hear “I’m not sure if this is working out between us” or something of the like. All the people who had placed their hearts and their hopes and their identities in specific individuals, and all of a sudden those individuals leave. All the people who gave themselves away just for nothing. All the people who thought they knew love but realized they didn’t. All the people who starve for attention and stuff their mouths with dirt. And what they resort to in order to fix themselves. And the thoughts ripped my heart to pieces.

Oh how I wish they knew Jesus. Oh how I wish they knew this love that never fails.

– Larry