Photo: MorgueFile Holiday arrangements did not happen as planned this past year.

Photo: Studiomill Valentine’s Day is filled with thoughts of love and adoration. You can just imagine that someone very romantic established the day and maybe even sent out the first lovely Valentine’s card … but history tells us that the day was established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD in remembrance of the martyrdom of one or more early Christians named Saint Valentine

Photo: Studiomill Nursing homes are one of my least favorite places to visit.

Photo: MorgueFile She was his first Valentine. He was hers. They married on Valentine’s Day, 1953

Photo: Chris Greene A little five-year-old girl named Megan was being led through an art gallery by the artist whose paintings were being showcased. At the end of the day, after seeing so many beautiful, exquisite paintings and being told by her mom not to touch, when the artist asked Megan, “What do you like best of all the things you see here?” Megan leaned forward and whispered, “I want to touch the fragile things.” That’s the longing in all of our hearts, isn’t it? We want to go beyond the superficial and mundane and touch the fragile things, the things of real value, things of the heart and soul

Photo: Studiomill “I believe these belong to you,” a man extended his cupped hand toward me. I peered into his hand and noticed that he cradled five seeds. They were indistinct seeds that I had never seen before.

Photo: Dreamstime Are you a parent who works hard to raise your children to be good Christians but wonder why they don’t like each other? Perhaps you’ve prided yourself on teaching your kids to clean their rooms, brush their teeth, and talk politely in public but at home there is a cloud of irritably between them. Is bickering more common than the sunshine of joy when they play together