Valentine's Day

Nathan was sitting at the kitchen table opening up his Valentines from all of his friends. This is first real Valentine's day party so it was really special. With the sunlight pouring in on him from the kitchen window, Nathan looked up questionally and asked me why all of his Valentines had hearts on them. Not wanting to miss a teaching opportunity, I quickly dove in the explanation of Saint Valentine and paralleling that with the story of God's love for us. Nathan quickly dropping his Valentines as if they were poisonous snakes yelled, "LOOOOOVE?!! I hate love!" and just as soon as his small paper cards fell to the floor did Nathan realized that with Valentines day came candy. Grabbing a piece of chocolate, Nathan decided that perhaps love was an ok thing.