Now I don't want to get off on a rant here...

A Merry Married Valentine’s Day

This being our first Valentine’s Day as a married couple, I wanted it to be a special one. The only problem was living up to dating V-day’s of the past. It’s easy to come up with ideas when you aren’t with someone all the time, but want to be so you can think of all sorts of creative ways to express your love. Then when you are able to be together all the time, it becomes a bit more challenging because your free time spent pining away for one another is taken up by daily expressions of love.

So that was my challenge for this year to get over that hurdle and still give my love the special V-day I wanted her to have. It began two weeks ago when I picked out the bouquet I wanted to send my wife, something non-clichéd so I went with blue iris and red royal lilies. I received a phone call mid-morning thanking me for the beautiful flowers and being reminded how much my wife loves tulips. I continued conversation wracking my brain trying to remember if I sent tulips because that didn’t sound right. Finally I spoke up and said I don’t think that’s the bouquet I ordered you. She should be receiving the right one this afternoon free of charge!

Jump to dinner time and we are in the car driving to the restaurant. Of course my wife is blindfolded because I wanted to surprise her with where we were going. One of her favorite restaurants and I believe a non-traditional V-day spot, The Rainforest Café. We had a great meal there enjoying the dimly lit atmosphere with the occasional rain shower!

Next up was a quiet Blockbuster night watching The Notebook. It was perhaps one of the saddest and most romantic movies I have seen. This sent Amy straight into my arms which is of course is right where I wanted her. Seeing a movie like that makes you appreciate the time you have now to enjoy your loved ones and look ahead to a time of growing old together. I can’t imagine spending the rest of my life with anyone more perfect and more beautiful than my Amy Joy.

May you recognize love when you see it, admit it to one another when you feel it, enjoy it together when you experience it, be patient and have faith when you can’t see it and always put Christ in the center of it.

Posted by price at February 15, 2005 10:06 AM