Ultimate act of LOVE

Today is Valentine’s Day. While most people are thinking about their loved ones I was thinking about my second graders. How could I make them feel loved today? Many of them have a parent who is deployed overseas and are probably feeling lonely. I went into school today to make sure that each one of them felt loved. Isn’t that what God asks of us, to make others see God’s love for them through our actions?

We made Valentine’s for our loved ones, a Valentine candy gram, and read several Valentine stories. We had a party in which we all shared our valentine’s with each other and ate our candy. Then these adorable second graders put on a Valentine’s concert for their parents and sang their little hearts out to songs like “Your Heart is Home” and “Viva Valentine”. They then proceeded to gorge on the cookies that were provided.

The students all brought me valentines and drew me pictures and I ended up feeling loved and valued. It was such a great feeling to know that my students care about me being in their class, even the ones that I struggle with daily. Isn’t it cool that while I went to encourage my students, they in turn gave more encouragement to me. I am so blessed to be in this profession. Thank you God for this opportunity!

1 Thessalonians 3:12- May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you

John 15:12- My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.

Leviticus 19:18- " 'Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD."

Isaiah 54:10- "Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the LORD, who has compassion on you."

John 10:17- "The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again".

1 Corinthians 16:14- " Do everything in love."

And the ultimate act of LOVE: " For God so LOVED the world, that He gave His only Son, that whosoever believes in Him may not perish but have eternal life in Christ Jesus!"- John 3:16


And my favorite: "Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸ Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹ This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. ¹⁰ This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹² No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us."- 1 John 4:7-12