Dear Valentine:

Dear High School Valentine,
You created a day of the year to make me realize that I am alone. So I'm bitter. I hate you.


Dear current Valentine,
You didn't create this day. God did. And He made it good. I didn't find you. God brought us together. And He is continually making us better. I was bitter in high school because of people who are in love like us, but now I understand that every day was created to celebrate Love. And everyone can have Love, especially if God is Love. My anger back then kept me from seeking after the Love who created love. And He is mine. And He gave you to me to love as He has loved me. Let's not use this day to celebrate ourselves, but the God who taught us to love each other as crazily as we do.


Dear High School Girls,
Please change your perspective. You're losing everything by choosing to be bitter every February 14th. Love is much bigger than one day. It is bigger than a romantic relationship. Showing love to others is what God expects of us every moment of every day. And being bitter about something as God-filled as love is a dangerous road.