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Valentine not Violent-time (Part 2)

Valentine not Violent time (Part 2)

Exactly 366days ago, I wrote specifically on this topic- It’s Valentine, not violent-time.  The innate passion of pouring my heart to my generation made me differentiate valentine from violent-time. Again, I am writing the second part of this article to buttress my point.

On February 14, 2016, I woke up as usual at 5:30am to say my devotion. As I was studying, I remembered that it was a special love Sunday, which we had all envisaged. Prior to this day, I had received numerous invites on special valentine nights out, love Sunday evening services, and others.

Stepping out of my house everywhere looked more beautiful than usual as I walked to the church. The colour, red, was flagged all around. Everyone tends to have a touch of red especially the women. Some ladies even had a red bag mixed with red lipsticks, red shoes in short they were reddy or perhaps ready for the day. Some even abused the red color and gave a ludicrous combination of red mixes that almost gave me a running stomach.

As the pastor preached on love, he buttressed it with God’s divine love; I wondered if any of these red-looking youths or should I say reddy youths were concerned about God’s divine love. I think they were more concerned about valentine’s love.

Conversely, Valentine was not truly a bad rubric. It has just found itself to be abused like every other good days- Christmas, Easter days etc- Sadly, It has even been more abused that instead of valentine, it is now violent-time.

God’s divine love also called agape love is not selfish, is kind, thinks no evil, never fails and is the greatest of all. The bible text was taken from first Corinthians chapter 13. As I listened to the pastor, I wished our youths would really understand what true love is all about.

Moreover, I have seen under the sun that valentine love is associated with selfishness and unkindness. This is because most guys will never want to spend any dime on a lady on valentine’s day without being acquiring his selfish desires which include having sex- worst of all, rape and unprotected sex with one of his numerous concubines which may sometimes lead to abortion- that’s why I say it has become a violent time.

Love in all its way does not act selfish or unkind. Love will not plan evil just to lure an unmarried girl into bed. Love will not leave his legally married wife at home to pursue a strange woman. Love will not leave his late brother’s children to do philanthropy for people he does not even know just to show-off his ego. No matter what comes its way, Love will never fail.

Sadly, I keep wondering if any of these youths truly understand what it takes to love. It is not by sending a sweet dreams messages and ending it with I love you that defines love.

Love is defined by actions made by the heart and Valentine should be used to remember what Love truly is. It should not be used to remember how violent fake love is. It should be a time when we share love with family and friends. It should be a time when we remember the less privileged and oppressed in our society.

So celebrate valentine not violent time.

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