What makes Valentine's Lover's day
Yesterday, 14th February, 2020 was Valentine's day, a day celebrated in many cities of the world, and I thought so much on what to write. For me, it was a quiet moment, so it afforded me the soberness needed to think and ponder.
I thought about the day and why it could be called lovers day. Was it the necessary appellation to have given the day? Why was it so, was the personality whose name became the day a personification of love? Is lovely celebration just a thing so momentary?
Even as much as I thought over these, I was struck to realize, and which is something that I admit: that beyond any connections to the day's reflection with the personality so name after, the commitment he offered spoke volume of what was love as to have the day reflectively connected to him.
There are many stories associated with Valentine's. Whether it is the story of him encouraging the legitimate bonding of love for soldiers who had been so denied by the Roman Emperor or it's about the one in which he exhibited boundless love by going the extra mile to heal the daughter of his jailer, the connectivities are all culminating to the implication of why the day mapped out for Valentine's memory had to be given to celebration of affection.
The foregoing would give a view to understanding the import of the celebration that every 14th day of February has become. Pope Gelasius had established that February 14 be for the feast of St Valentine, who in AD 269 died on that day. And as it's customary, when a person dies his acts become his memory.
So it was that the affectionate attributes shown by Valentine became so synonymous with him as to describe his feast day. It's to say that by implication, the dedication to the acts of love, became an attitude that defined the character of the personality that had this day for memorial; and in remembering him, his attitude must very well reflect.
14th February, the feast day of St Valentine, the the time to celebrate love!
Life and its moments are reflections and the cherish of liveable memories. They keep us going and give us enough reason to live and aspire for their more cherished forms. It is the same with the celebration of Valentine's day that has come to last for centuries. Trusting and rewarding as the celebration of love is, it becomes really an issue to ask how it is been celebrated.
And indeed to better understand how it should be celebrated, it's very necessary to consider what true love is. A remarkable example is given by the basis of the celebration itself, by the attitude and character of St Valentine. St Valentine like most practical preachers of love, in entrusting love, lived it, showed it and gave us a vivid explanation and example of what love is.
Love is not about a phantom feeling. Love is an attitude that's shown, and a life that's lived; beyond the temporariness of perceived love, true love must be shown as long as we breathe. It's expressed in what and how you say and in what and how you do. To love genuinely, you must be loving and lovable. You must love yourself to be able to show same to another.
This is just the first step to what true love is. For a love so sublime so pure and so true is one that places the desire of the self below the value of God. The reason it is instructed that to love, one must commit to it in selfsame way as God himself does (John 13:34) The farther any suggested commitment of love is from this, the more adulterated and the more untrue it is.
#HappyValentine
I thought about the day and why it could be called lovers day. Was it the necessary appellation to have given the day? Why was it so, was the personality whose name became the day a personification of love? Is lovely celebration just a thing so momentary?
Even as much as I thought over these, I was struck to realize, and which is something that I admit: that beyond any connections to the day's reflection with the personality so name after, the commitment he offered spoke volume of what was love as to have the day reflectively connected to him.
There are many stories associated with Valentine's. Whether it is the story of him encouraging the legitimate bonding of love for soldiers who had been so denied by the Roman Emperor or it's about the one in which he exhibited boundless love by going the extra mile to heal the daughter of his jailer, the connectivities are all culminating to the implication of why the day mapped out for Valentine's memory had to be given to celebration of affection.
The foregoing would give a view to understanding the import of the celebration that every 14th day of February has become. Pope Gelasius had established that February 14 be for the feast of St Valentine, who in AD 269 died on that day. And as it's customary, when a person dies his acts become his memory.
So it was that the affectionate attributes shown by Valentine became so synonymous with him as to describe his feast day. It's to say that by implication, the dedication to the acts of love, became an attitude that defined the character of the personality that had this day for memorial; and in remembering him, his attitude must very well reflect.
14th February, the feast day of St Valentine, the the time to celebrate love!
Life and its moments are reflections and the cherish of liveable memories. They keep us going and give us enough reason to live and aspire for their more cherished forms. It is the same with the celebration of Valentine's day that has come to last for centuries. Trusting and rewarding as the celebration of love is, it becomes really an issue to ask how it is been celebrated.
And indeed to better understand how it should be celebrated, it's very necessary to consider what true love is. A remarkable example is given by the basis of the celebration itself, by the attitude and character of St Valentine. St Valentine like most practical preachers of love, in entrusting love, lived it, showed it and gave us a vivid explanation and example of what love is.
Love is not about a phantom feeling. Love is an attitude that's shown, and a life that's lived; beyond the temporariness of perceived love, true love must be shown as long as we breathe. It's expressed in what and how you say and in what and how you do. To love genuinely, you must be loving and lovable. You must love yourself to be able to show same to another.
This is just the first step to what true love is. For a love so sublime so pure and so true is one that places the desire of the self below the value of God. The reason it is instructed that to love, one must commit to it in selfsame way as God himself does (John 13:34) The farther any suggested commitment of love is from this, the more adulterated and the more untrue it is.
#HappyValentine
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