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You Don’t Love Things

January 21, 2019

“Love people. Use things.” – The Minimalists 

What’s your favorite food? “Oh my gosh, I love tacos and guacamole, basically all Mexican food!” I also love writing, the beach, shopping, makeup, shoes, french fries, and summer. Do I really love all those things? No, but we’re all guilty of using the word love so flippantly. According to Merriam-Webster, love is: a strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties. None of these material objects or interests can actually be loved, yet the word is used so carelessly. Admit it. You say you “love” things so often without even thinking about it! Let’s really think about how we use the word love. 

I love guacamole, french fries, and popcorn.

I’ve said it so many times, even about the above items. “I love guacamole so much. I need some guac.” “I’m craving french fries and could really go for some right now.” “I love popcorn so much. I’d go to the movie theater just to get the popcorn.” I’ve been guilty of saying all of this and wrongly using the word love in relation to food.

It’s common to use the word love to describe food you are very fond of, but do you think anything of it? At the very least we should change love to like or enjoy, but the problem runs deeper. The problem is we are placing such a great importance on food and instantly grabbing or stopping to pick up the food we like best or crave. Instead, maybe we can stop ourselves each time we say we love a specific type of food, restaurant, or meal and think or pray about WHO we really do love in our lives.

I love shopping, handbags, and makeup

I would consider myself quite enthusiastic when it comes to all things clothes, accessories, makeup, beauty and skin products, shoes, even journals, pens, stationary, and anything of the like. I’ve been overly intrigued by these things since I was very young, and it’s only gotten worse.

I try to catch myself, when I say I love clothes or “I love those shoes, they’re so cute!” Yes, I get so excited by any of these items, but they are just items, material objects, not something to love. We can indeed have a huge or even extreme fondness for something, but try to remember it is a hobby or interest. Fashion and makeup can be an interest, and many make a living on blogging about those items I just mentioned! What they love, however, is hopefully their families and friends, not the material possessions.

I love to travel

Who doesn’t “love” to travel? I don’t know many people who don’t like to get away and have a much needed, wonderful vacation. Again, you don’t love to travel, but most likely it may be one of your favorite things to do more than anything. We shouldn’t confuse our favorite interests and activities for love. Yes, maybe you travel all the time and go all over the country or world, but still, you don’t love it. Love your family. Love your friends. Show love to other people you may struggle to show patience or acceptance.

This idea ties way back to the Bible. It’s not just something we hear. It’s an actual teaching in the Bible, in our faith. Even if you’re not someone who has faith or believes in God, I ask you to read this verse from Timothy with an open mind.

“For the love of money is the root of all evils, and some people in their desire for it have strayed from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains. – 1 Timothy 6:10.

As a Catholic writing this, sometimes it admittedly makes me feel like a fraud to say I often catch myself saying I love any of the things I just mentioned. It especially makes me feel like a hypocrite, as I write this post on the topic and read the verse from Timothy. It’s one thing to catch yourself using the word love the wrong way so often, but it’s even harder to take the steps and action to place less enjoyment and value on money and material things. It’s hard for so many of us. I think admitting I’m also guilty of this and struggle with valuing and focusing on things which shouldn’t matter. We’re all flawed. We’re all human.

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Yes, It’s Sweetest Day

October 15, 2016

sweetestdayDid you celebrate Sweetest Day today with your spouse or significant other? Did you even know it was Sweetest Day?! If you aren’t from the Great Lakes region, mostly Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, you may have never heard of it! My husband and I are from the Cleveland, Ohio area, where the “holiday” originated, so we know it comes along every third Saturday in October. Does that mean we spend every Sweetest Day exchanging cards, chocolates, and having fancy dinners? Of course not, especially since we live in Virginia. We were surprised to find a very small selection of cards by accident recently, when looking for a birthday card at our local Kroger. We were pretty shocked to find such a thing in Richmond, since most often people here have never heard of the so-called holiday. According to Hallmark, Sweetest Day came into existence around 1922, when a Cleveland, Ohio candy company employee, Herbert Birch Kingston, wished to bring happiness to those who were sometimes forgotten. Hallmark began making Sweetest Day cards in the mid-1960s and now has more than seventy cards to choose from for your loved ones.

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I believe many take advantage of today to create a romantic day full of fanciness and grand gestures, but really it can just be another expense for a lot of couples. Some parents use it as a way to give their children more candy and toys. The gesture of giving a day of extra time could be a better way to spend today or any Saturday really. My husband and I didn’t remember Sweetest Day until this evening, when he saw something about it on social media. I simply responded “Oh yeah” and continued with what I was doing, content with the time we have been able to spend together today. We don’t always get Saturdays together, due to work or different commitments, so we take advantage of those we do. Today we filled our time with a free and local Harvest Festival, a late lunch at Chipotle (fairly inexpensive), a car wash and clean at Car Pool, and a few random errands, before returning home to finish watching the Cleveland Indians beat the Blue Jays in the American League Championship! As I finish this post, we will end the night with watching a few shows on the DVR, and I will no doubt fit in writing my lesson plans for school this week. Sundays for us typically consist of being filled at church prepping and running the youth night, so I have to squeeze my work in beforehand! If you didn’t know about Sweetest Day, you now know what kind of crazy things we northerners think up to celebrate love! Don’t be pressured to spend a fortune on love. Just show you care, and spend time with your family.

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