Saint Valknoeibgkhnkmkmgrrr... day

I am not a fan of the commercialized Valentines day.
this year it felt probably the most downtrodden day in awhile. People were crazy! of course it didn't help that it was raining and people were driving like they were MAD!
I was spending time with my friend Luke and we ended up going to Trader Joe's in the U-district.
As he pulled into the parking garage I attempted to get out of the car and had one leg out the door. the door was partially resting on it and I hadn't pushed it open yet. Thank God that I didn't open it because a lady nearly ran over my foot with her car! What I mean to say is that the door was partway open and a lady pulled her car into the parking space right next to Luke's car, nearly crushing my foot in her haste to get done shopping! She also parked ludicrously close to my door leaving me barely any room to leave the automobile! I was scared and furious. I was poised with a lusting to wreak havoc with an avenging wrath upon the poor woman.
Luke just laughed.
Then he suggested that I leave her a valentine.
So I did.
I got a spider-man valentine out of the box, signed it with a heart sticker, and left it under her windshield wiper. I also put the same kind of heart sticker on my jacket just in case she would be detail oriented/observant.The ludicrously simple valentine simply made me laugh and it humbled me.

It also made me recall what one of my mentors had told me: God wants us to love. When we feel like cussing someone out we should put the perspective of a perfect love in our minds and work towards that goal instead of an instant satisfier that we may regret later. (Thanks Alecha!) 1Corinthians 13. Look it up, it's awesome. (Thanks Meagan!) Doesn't God love us each with unconditional love? Even when we do stupid things? Of course! I do such stupid things all the time and I am probably the worst of the worst. So who am I to judge like God?! (Thanks Holly!)
It is better to love.
(Thanks Luke!)
Luke and I eventually made it into the store, laughing because of the valentine and I pretty much put the lady out of my mind, but when we passed the bustling cashier lines he pointed her out to me. In her haste to make it into the store I hadn't really gotten any more than a glance of her. She looked tired and weary.

I felt really bad for having such offensive thoughts about her. She was soon through the check out line as were we and we ended up leaving the store right after her. I just caught sight of her taking the valentine off of her windshield before I ducked behind another car. Then she drove off. That was the end of that! (it wasn't exactly the same valentine as this picture, but it was from the same series)

(Thanks God! YOU ROCK!)