Valentine Messages

My Valentine's preparations started early this year. I made valentines for the younger grandchildren in January, to make sure my cards would reach them before February 14. It takes about two weeks for snail mail to reach Canada from the US. I forgot to document them with my iPhone before I mailed them, though. They were cute, with super hero figures cut from some Christmas wrapping paper I'd salvaged from a tidy-up job at our January project. No one saves used wrapping paper these days except those of us who see a future use for it!

Then I sent texts to the teenagers, with photos of heart shaped rocks with a message inscribed on top.
I was pleased that my January work buddy showed me how to add text to photos. What a useful skill!
Thanks, Betsy! I love it when someone explains another feature of modern technology to me.

At our latest project at Phoenix Christian Preparatory School, the five couples who are working together went out to dinner on February 13, to beat the anticipated rush on Valentine's Day. While we were waiting for our food, I passed out tiny candy hearts with messages on them. The instructions were: "Make a sentence out of at least two of your hearts, and say it to your Sweetie." Some of us got real kisses or hugs, as per the hearts that said 'Kiss Me', or 'Hug Me.'
Some had acronyms which none of us understood, like 'GOAT'.
I thought I knew what this meant. My mum used to call me 'koza' in Czech, which is what you say to someone who is being silly. The word means 'goat', and is a term of endearment mixed with a mild rebuke. So I began my sentence to Terry:  "My dear goat..."  Everyone laughed. Strangely enough, two days later I was looking through my old notes of sermons, and one young pastor had used this expression: GOAT, and explained that it meant "Greatest Of All Time."  OK, now I know!
Did you know that YAAAS! accompanied by a fist pump is an expression of extreme excitement?
Well, now I know!
There were more, but I didn't research them before we began our game.

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Christians are to be "letters from Jesus", "written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts." II Corinthians 3:3