{"id":1251,"date":"2016-02-16T22:07:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T04:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2022-01-10T21:36:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T03:36:27","slug":"happy-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/?p=1251","title":{"rendered":"Happy Valentines Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Bell1\"<\/a>

A College Valentine<\/p><\/div>\n

I know Valentine’s Day\u00a0passed for 2016 last Sunday. But I wanted to share that I had a very enjoyable\u00a0one, and I pray you did too.<\/p>\n

\"Valentine's<\/a>

Valentine’s Celebration Days Past<\/p><\/div>\n

On Valentine’s eve eve, we got with a couple of friends who lived a stone’s throw from\u00a0us on the farm, where we lived for seventeen years and largely raised our families. We had a nice dinner out, then went to their home for some fellowship and Rook playing. \ud83d\ude42 Good times and good times remembered.<\/p>\n

On Valentine’s eve, we dressed up a little and I took the wife to one of our favorite local Italian restaurants for a quiet evening together, just the two of us. Very nice.<\/p>\n

On Valentine’s Day five couples of friends converged at\u00a0our home for a special dinner surprise prepared by the girls for the guys. This was followed by lots of fun, fellowship, and sharing lives, along with a crazy game of “Telestrations.”<\/p>\n

\"Valentine's<\/a>

Valentine’s Day 2016 with Friends<\/p><\/div>\n

Valentine’s Day seems perfect for pointing out the beauty of love and close relationships between couples and friends. On that note I want to end, and share a remarkable message on LOVE delivered on Valentine’s Day<\/a> to a community of believers in Kansas City Missouri, by a beautiful young woman named Anna Stuckey Newby in her early thirties, married, and the mother of two small children. This young woman grew up in Fort Smith & Van Buren, where her family was our close\u00a0friends and\u00a0neighbors for several years. It was her first time to speak in front of her community<\/a>, and what a blessed, insightful, inspiring presentation it was! I hope you can send it to your phone and listen. Or get somewhere quiet and let her insights and words soak in? Or take a drive and listen, as\u00a0my wife and I did the following day. You’ll be blessed. You’ll be glad. You’ll feel like you’ve just come to know God a little bit better, or a whole lot better<\/span>. Godspeed on your journey, and Happy Valentines Day!<\/p>\n

\"Anna<\/a>

Anna looks exactly like Mom a few years ago…<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lilac-Breasted Roller<\/a><\/p>\n

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