Many are alone on Valentines Day, even if with others.
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I am blessed in my marriage. We’ve been together for almost three decades this weekend. I love my wife, she loves me, and we both love God. I know that in many ways this is the exception among my friends and people I know.
It is important to follow the guidance, nay, command, of Jesus that we should love one another. This weekend please spend some time in prayer for your family and friends. I hope you are blessed in your life with love as well. But not all of us are, and I need to bring that out so that we an exceed the boundaries of paper greeting cards and show love and compassion for others. Invite them out to dinner. Spend time in honest conversation. Listen to their cries.
Love those who are in loveless marriages. You will undoubtedly know someone who hates their spouse and gets the same in return. You will know people who love their spouse but are being divorced without a reason being given. They are confused, sad, and hurt in both cases. Love them and pray for them today.
Love those who have no other in their life. They are not alone if they have God, but that’s hard to focus on in the wake of destruction that loneliness leaves. They have you. It does not have to be romantic love, but filial love. Just let them know they are not alone.
There is the loneliness of age and distance. It is not always the pain of separation that hurts the most. Sometimes it’s the pain of togetherness. Pray for the elderly who have no family nearby to help them in their last years. Pray for the mother who never hears from her son and can’t figure out why. Pray for the daughter who’s father moved in “just for a while” and stays on, disrupting her life and that of her own family months later. Pray for the young person at college, or in the military, who yearns for an hour on the couch with their mom and dad but can’t afford it, or is unwanted in their own home.
Pray for those who are mentally ill and don’t feel the love that is offered them by their family. Pray for the family who won’t give up on the mentally ill but are tiring after years of dead ends.
Pray for the homeless. They are the most alone in the world.
Pray for each other – we can all use that boost. Most of all, let them know you are praying. Let them know you love them more than you can ever express. Bless them with your words.
