Love Thursday: February 14th, 2008

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!  

An admission:  historically, I've always rather disliked Valentine's Day, ever since I was a gawky tween, all knees and teeth, and the only person in class who didn't receive a Valentine.  Even now, as someone who is in a happy and loving marriage, Valentine's Day still makes me uneasy:  what's with all the jewelry ads on television?  The pressure to come up with the perfect gift?  The sheer commercialization of love?  I mean, granted, Valentine's Day is sort of a Hallmark Holiday, and it's certainly nice to be the recipient of such things, but is that really the only way to express love?

I say no.  Absolutely not.  As a matter of fact, I think I'm going to celebrate Valentine's Day a little differently this year:   

Today, Valentine's Day, in addition to making sure my husband and daughter know how much they're loved, I'm going to challenge myself commit a random act of love today.  It may not be overwhelming or grandiose; in fact, often the best acts of love aren't.  Perhaps I'll send a note or an e-mail to someone with whom I haven't  spoken in a while, telling them I'm thinking of them.  Or maybe I'll buy a small grocery-store bouquet of flowers and leave them anonymously on someone's doorstep.  Or maybe I'll leave a Love Note to my city in some random location. Who knows?  But I think I want to do something love-ly.  Take Valentine's Day back to what it's all supposed to mean.

 Of course, you can feel free to join me. :)

Anyway, Valentine's Day aside, Happy Love Thursday!   Please leave your links to your images of love in the comments below (and be sure to check out the beautiful work of camera shy momma, iyoyome, and nicky thomas and their depictions of love). 

And most sincerely, may your hearts be FILLED with love today, on this special, Valentine's Love Thursday Day! 

Comments

[lindsey]

A love for pancakes and my husband trying to be supportive of my idea for a career change- true love!

[Laurie]

Mary and Jackie dancing in the French Quarter.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rubyshoes/145310534/in/set-72057594137177048/

[ursula]

On vacation, spending the day with my little valentine. Hope everyone is as in love today as every other day.

Here's my valentine with one of his loves...(narcissus)...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/74752856@N00/2216685733/

[Lindsey]

8 minutes to spare...

[Lindsey]

Let's try this one more time, now with 7 minutes to go...

http://thelingenfelters.blogspot.com/2008/02/love-thursday.html

[kelly rae]

once hated, now loved....

http://kellyraeroberts.blogspot.com/2008/02/love-thursday.html

[StephLove]

I didn't make it in time for Thursday, but here are my kids in one of their sweeter moments last week.

www.allfortheloveofyou.com

[Jenny Rebecca]

http://jennyrebecca.typepad.com/jenny_rebecca/2008/02/30-4.html
Catching up with my Love Thursday post! Our first one as a family.

[Steve Martin]

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My name is Steve Martin and my wife and I run The Positive Way website (www.positive-way.com) as part of our contribution to helping marriages and other loving relationships thrive and prosper. We just celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary and The Positive Way celebrated its 12th anniversary. The Positive Way website has over 200,000 words of free relationship and communication content that we have written for our readers.

I thought that you and your readers might be interested in helping us gather information on what really makes love work for the long term. We are running a contest – Love Assurance Contest to find out what other people think is important to assure that their loving relationships will last. The more entries the better as it is important to learn what really works.

The Love Assurance Contest link is http://www.positive-way.com/Contest.htm . It is free to enter and the top five winners will receive one of five copies of the hot new love story Atonement – on DVD to be released March 18th plus a copy of our book Talk to Me: How to Create Positive Loving Communication. The contest is open to age18+ residents of US and Canada (except PR and Quebec) and runs through April 30, 2008.

We’d appreciate a mention and link in your blog if you think it fits your mission. We’ll be happy to place a reciprocal link to your blog on the contest page if you would like. Just email me the URL to the page with contest mention on it and the home page URL of your blog that you want us to link to.

Thanks very much for your help and thanks for the contributions you make with your blog. Also please feel free to enter the contest. You write well and have good things to say so we’d like to hear from you.

Sincerely yours,

Steve Martin
The Positive Way
www.positive-way.com

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