February Reflections: Love, Flowers, and Groundhogs 1 John 4:7

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February

This is the month that we remember romance and presidents. It is also a month when we look to rodents to forecast the weather. In this area, we will see some yellow flowers and likely some premature blooms on fruit trees. These are all just some of the peculiarities of February.

Of course, Valentine’s Day is February the fourteenth. It has just occurred to me that this is right in the middle of February’s twenty-eight days. Does that mean anything? Probably not. Valentine’s Day has the heart as its symbol. The heart is the symbol of love. Let us decide to let love be the center of our lives.

Let’s choose to love our families selflessly and our neighbor as ourselves. Always remember to love the Lord your God with all your heart. The flowers that bloom this month will be pretty. The groundhog may or may not see his shadow. But there is one thing for sure. Love never fails. And between faith, hope, and love the greatest of these is love.

“Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.

But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”

I Corinthians 13:4-13 NKJV

https://bible.com/bible/114/1co.13.4-13.NKJV

Douglas & Deborah Huff

From Down Where the Pavement Ends

www.pavementendsministry.com

email-douglas@pavementendsministry.com

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Pavement Ends Ministry

After years of serving in a pastoral role in several churches, I retired from leading a church full time, but wanted to stay active in preaching the Gospel. I started writing brief, parable-like devotions that were shared through a radio ministry. At the end of the radio spot, I always invite people to come and see me “down where the pavement ends.” (Which comes from the fact that I literally live at the end of a paved road!)