I found these doilies on the cheap and we made simple Valentines this year with them. I wrote the standard VDay greeting on about 80 of them, and then glued Scripture on the back of each. I watched a romantic comedy during the process and it turned out to be a relaxing (late) night.

 The girls wrote their names on them and added a few stickers.

This part of the process wasn't the easiest. The girls got tired and distracted after a few and I couldn't believe how many we had left! So we broke it up into different sessions over two days. We did only about 5 at a time. 

Vivian did this Valentine at preschool and the teachers mailed it to us. It's the little things :)

The Scripture on the back of our valentines is one that the girls have learned this year:

Beloved, let us love one another, for love comes from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7

And this is the rest of the passage:

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

(1 John 4:8-12 ESV)

I distinctly remember my 11th grade Government teacher asking us in class one day to write down an answer to the question, "What is love?" (it must have been VDay because otherwise this has nothing to do with Government!)

I remember it because I was stumped. I had no idea what to write. I wanted to be profound but didn't even know where to start. I think I ended up with a cheesy quote from a movie (actually, I remember exactly what movie and what the quote was but it is too embarrassing to admit haha)

Anyway, this passage answers that question perfectly. It defines love. And I'm thankful that I've been freely given this love that surpasses all the rest.

There is one great Love: Jesus.