Love Is Never Last Minute!

Boy, St. Valentine's Day has really snuck up on me this year!

I found myself scurrying around the house today having the kids help me make and put up last minute decorations.  Don't all kids love to decorate for special occasions? But love really isn't last minute, is it?  Or is it?

Love, coming from God, is always on time.  But are we on time with our Love for Him?

St. Valentine's Day is a day we focus on the love and charity that we should really have all year round.

I like taking a little time to reflect on God's love and how I can best show a little more love, a little more often.  This is a great day out of the year to think about that:)

If you are looking for an easy idea to decorate for St. Valentine's Day, remembering how God first loved us, think about His Sacred Heart.  After all the real St. Valentine knew this…He loved Christ so much that he gave his life out of love.  {If you don't already have the book about the life of St. Valentine, I highly recommend it!  It's a family favorite that we look forward to each year:)}

We just took a package of heart-shaped cutouts and made them into the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

AND some cookies...by adding a little brown icing!
These were just store-bought;)

What an easy way to transform the secular to the sacred...

Even if it is last-minute decoration, love itself is never last minute!

This was the scripture wreath we made last year...

My favorite scripture quote about love is stenciled above our kitchen table...

"Beloved let us love one another for love is of God...

"1 John 4:7

Last night we completed our "Socks of Love" St. Valentine service project...It went great!

Our parish youth and their families helped fill up 70 pairs of socks with toiletries for our local homeless shelter...

What a great job they did in less than an hour!  

I should not be amazed but I WAS...God provided the perfect amount of supplies for the number of socks we received, including the exact amount of tags.

Nope, God's love is never last minute...It is perfect and right on time.  Amen!

Socks of Love were dropped off at the local homeless shelter on St. Valentine's Day...I am always filled with joy over the love of Jesus in the hearts of these servants!

"O St. Valentine, lover of Christ and of the Church, we ask your intercession that we may learn how to love God above all things, and to selflessly love one another.  O glorious St. Valentine, pray for us, that we too may have the steadfast faith of the martyrs."