Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?

This day is just as any other.  I wake early and mentally start planning how I want the events of the next 10 hours to flow.  The moment both feet hit the ground it can go in a few different directions.  Will I be creative and put a few additional holes in a wall somewhere in the house, research a new idea that can last for hours and hours, or perhaps relax and allow the creativity of others entertain me?  I am very well versed in doing all on any given day.  It depends on the energy that flows throughout my overactive brain.

But perhaps it's not just any other day.  After all, it is Valentine's Day.  The day of love, lovers, loveless, hopeless, endless, seamless romantics. It seems to hit a little differently when you are single.  I can guarantee with absolute certainty that this is due to the media frenzy behind, in front, and around this day.  The commercials, the ads, the sales, the flowers, the candy, the gifts, the dinners, followed by the oohs and the ahhs.  

All super cute and sweet reminders that I am single...It might sound as if I have nothing but disdain for this day, but it is quite the opposite.  
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LET ALL THAT YOU DO BE DONE IN LOVE. 1 CORINTHIANS 16:14

I have been single for a little over 6 years.  At the beginning of my new journey days like this would piss me off.  I would make myself emotionally absent from caring about anything remotely related to love.  As I began to grow, I learned what makes me happy.  What I can't deal with and what I cannot live without.  

Embracing peace allowed me to fall in love with myself.  Without love of self you can't be any good to another, and with the absence of peace is the illusion of confusion.  

I wanted something wonderful to eat today, per usual, so I went to the market and grabbed a few things.  I was tempted to buy myself flowers, but the prices blew me back to the time I was dating a silly boy and wished I wasn't.  I will wait until the prices are lower than my mortgage.  There are subtle reminders all around me that continue to nudge me in the right direction, and I'm looking forward to arriving at the next destination.  I give myself grace to simply be who I was always meant to be.  Happy, joyful, and blessed, even if I am a single Valentine.  

Talking to myself has become a sense of therapy and I find that I often ask, "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?"  Because I do...

​Happy Valentine's Day!  💕