Valentine's Day is linked with romantic love: with card sharing, gift giving and flowers sent to that special person in one's life. As beautiful as this may seem there is a deeper meaning expressed in everyday life and in countless ways. Love is Creation's first impulse, its sustaining energy, and is available to all. Love is birdseed on a porch railing in winter, a listening ear for the 90th time, when compassion trumps power and control, a cup of coffee shared. Love is hidden surprisingly in the stuff of life: in sacrifice, pain and transcendence of self. Every day is Valentine's Day!
Ann Marshall, CSJ