Something to think about on St. Valentine's Day

A couple of days ago, I wrote something on Facebook that I would like to share here:
"If Dickens were writing about Valentine's Day...I think he would have had Scrooge say: "If I could work my will, nephew, every idiot who goes about with "Happy Valentine's Day" on their lips should be boiled with their own box of chocolates and buried with a Cupid's arrow through their heart.""

I can imagine some person saying: "Are you against Valentine's Day? Are you anti-romantic? Are you being bitter because you are nearing 47 and the chances of you having a romance/marriage are about as likely as a blizzard hitting the Sahara?" 

As to the second question....no I'm not anti-romantic...I love it when I see two people that are meant for each other fall in love, become serious about one another and get married...If I would have had my schedule better arranged, I would have been able to go to a friend's wedding a couple of months back...

And in reference to the third question...no....

But to swing things back around, it's not Valentine's Day I have a problem with....it's what's been done with it, it's been turned into something other than what it was supposed to be....sort of like Resurrection Sunday and Christmas...something with a religious connotation  that has been twisted into a day of secular shopping sprees...If we were to stay with the original meaning of the day...atheists would be falling all over themselves to try to have this day banned...Originally the day was to honor a man of the early church who was martyred during one of the Roman Empire's attacks against the church. 

I think the main reason that we have had the meaning of the day changed is to remove any thought of God or men of God who were willing to give their lives for Him. So tomorrow, can you do yourselves a favor? Think of how you and your "sweetheart" (wife, girlfriend, husband, boyfriend) can be more like St. Valentine (the man) and not like St. Valentine (the over-inflated day)....It might help you to remember the greatest type of love there is, the love that the Father had when He sent His Son to pay the price for our sins so that we can be with Him for all eternity....