Pure Love

To be perfectly honest I haven't thought a lot about Valentines Day this year. I guess it has a lot to do with the fact that I don't have a Valentine and the fact that I've never had a Valentine. The day just doesn't hold any meaning. But I was in my yoga class today and we were talking about love and how really Valentines Day was just a day to celebrate charity--the pure love of Christ. As we went through our yoga practice my instructor kept on telling us that we need to open up more and love ourselves because only then we can love others as much as Christ loved them.

We need to give ourself permission to accept our faults and our weaknesses and to realize that we have them and love ourselves enough to work through them. We also need to recognize our strengths. And not just solely what strengths and weaknesses my body has as I know i can't quite move or stretch as other people can. It's also how balanced we are in our emotional, spiritual, and social lives. I need to give myself permission to love more freely and accept my weaknesses.

This is why I love yoga. I get to focus on what's good and bad about me, reflect on what I need to work on. I love that I feel so free afterwards--my body is limber and flexible and I can conquer the world. I get to focus on my relationship with others and my relationship with myself and my relationship with my Savior.

After class a girl then said that for this Valentines Day she was going to have Christ as her Valentine.

I think I'd like that too.