selflessness (and the day of romantic love)

Ok so....would it be really evil for me to change my mind JUST a little bit about Valentines Day? :) Yeah, I still hate the girly-girls and the emo-aloners...but maybe it's not all bad... Bah ha.

So...yesterday in my Family Studies class we talked a bit about the purpose of marriage. HoLA it was intense. Everyone, or ALMOST everyone, I'm pretty sure like 90% of people I know have a totally wrong view of what marriage is all about. Scary. I totally had a wrong view of it until yesterday, and then it was like, BAM! Truth in your face! It kind of sucked. Every girl has her ideals and actually a bunch of lies she's heard about how happy marriage is and all this wonderful stuff you get from it. BUT that isn't even close to what God intended for it. It's ridiculous really...to see how far our world has come from what God really wants for us.

Apparently my life in general is supposed to be selfless....servant living you could call it. You'd think this would be old news...but no. There's alot of stuff out there that teaches us exactly the opposite of Christ-likeness (which includes selflessness). SOOO much of this "marriage talk" included alot on serving and selflessness. I sort of always thought I was very considerate of others' needs. Wrong-o. From what I'm seeing and hearing in classes and from people I really trust and respect and admire, selflessness is a heck of a lot more than what I thought. Yippee!!!

It actually is kind of cool that I'm learning this....but also really scary. (Dang I say "scary" alot) It's good to recognize all this stuff that I have to work on ALOT....but it's so incredibly hard to actually work on these things. Believe me, the things I have to work on BOMBARD me every day of my life. It's kind of sucky, but I'm really really thankful that I'm open enough to see my faults now. That hasn't always been the case.

Anyway. I'm off to read...maybe nap....maybe do absolutely nothing at all. Mohebonep!

"Let me be locked in eternity with you....where your eyes like the stars glisten in the dark..."
Or something like that.... - Kerri's Song :) (definitely forgot about that til yesterday...mwa ha ha)

*Meg M.