This year, I missed St. Valentine’s by a few weeks. No regrets. For us, every day is Saint Valentine’s, regardless of history.
There were a few Valentines.
One was a priest in Rome, the second a bishop of Interamna (now Terni in Italy), and the third, presumably the Saint, was martyred in Africa in 496 AD.. Pope Gelasius substituted St Valentines Day for Feast of Lupercalia, which, heretofore, served to avert evil spirits, purify the city, and release health and fertility. To my knowledge Romans remained healthy and fertile.
None of the three Valentines had anything, absolutely nothing whatsoever, to do with lovers giving each other flowers, chocolates, or ornamental cards.
Does this bother you?
(Me neither)
For me, or us, loving a person is a means of discovering freedom. Most of us are held in the iron shackles of our ego, spending most of our time and effort trying to sate our personal tastes, pleasures, and weaknesses.
Only the magic of love, real love (not sexual hunger), can free us from those fetters which hold us in the iron grip of egoism.
Love releases us from the exigencies of one’s own weaknesses when the other person becomes more important to you than your own life, your own comfort, your own pleasure. Hence, the search for love is:
A
SEARCH FOR FREEDOM
And such was Marvin Clark. At the outset, he had no idea what release true love can offer. And then, gradually, the elixir of love began to take hold of him.
Marvin Clark, the invisible man, a man as shy as he was retiring, assumed a cloak of invisibility. The only escapes he enjoyed were into the inner worlds of his own making. Then, a beautiful woman entered his drab reality. Suddenly, the protective ramparts Marvin erected so carefully began to crumble. Would she set him free?
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