Happy Valentine's Day!

Just thought I'd try to think of something fun and different to post for Valentine's Day. Tomorrow I will try to post some actual pictures, but don't know if I'll be able to as Wednesdays are usually pretty busy! I hope you all had a wonderful day, and got some fun valentines in the mail or something to brighten your day! :) Pastor Belford preached in chapel yesterday, and gave a Valentine's Day message from I John 2:15 - 17 about "The Love That God Hates." Though we are set in the world, we are not of the world. We cannot love God if we are consumed with the world. Christ must be the object of our love, which cannot merely be verbally proved, but must be shown through our actions that we love Him.
I. Identify the enemy
II. Remember your motivations
III. Remember your obligations

Valentine Recipe:
Unbaked Candy Ingredients :
Cookies, Candies, No-bake, 2 c Sugar, 1 Stick oleo, 1/2 c Peanut butter, 3 c Quick oats, 1/3 c Cocoa, 1/2 c Milk, 1 ts Vanilla
Preparation : Put butter, sugar, milk and cocoa in pan.
Boil 1 or 2 minutes. Add peanut butter, oats, and vanilla.
Drop on wax paper; cool.

History of Valentine's Day: The eternal lover that gave us the famous word 'Valentine' and originated the tradition of writing love letters on this day, is believed to be Bishop Valentine. He was a priest in Rome when, the city was ruled by 'Claudius the Cruel'. Inspite of the fact that Claudius had forbidden Christian conversions and Christian marriages, the Bishop refused to surrender to Roman Gods and carried on his religious duties in secret. He was imprisoned for disobedience, but even in prison he converted the convicts. While he was in prison, the jailer's daughter became his friend and was loyal to him through his ordeal. When Claudius came to know that imprisonment had not broken his enduring Christian spirit, the bishop was executed. However, on the day of his death Valentine wrote a note to his friend, 'the jailer's daughter' and signed it - 'From Your Valentine'. This great man who died for his beliefs, for his enduring love of the Christian God, was chosen as the patron Saint of lovers. 14th February has since been celebrated as Valentine's Day. Romantic souls all over the world have preferred to focus on the romantic twist of this tale, the story of the man who united lovers in the holy bond of marriage; a man who loved his jailer's daughter and started the tradition of writing love notes.

Love Poem:
Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small:
Love so amazing, so divine
Demands my soul, my life, my all. - Isaac Watts

"For God so loV ed the world,
That He gA ve
His onL y
BegottE n
SoN
T hat whosoever
BelIeveth in Him
Should N ot perish,
But have E verlasting life."
John 3:16

"To the world you might be one person,
but to one person you might be the world."
--Unknown