5 Creative Ways to Celebrate Valentine’s Day

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

How do you feel about Valentine’s Day? It can be a tricky date on the calendar for some of us who have high expectations and wind up feeling disappointed and unappreciated when things don’t go as planned. One antidote to that is to find creative new ways to celebrate love on February 14! Snippet from the Show “You shouldn’t have to wait for this one day (out of 365) to feel loved and appreciated inside of your relationships.” SHOWNOTES Text the word GIRLFRIENDS to 33-777 to get the full shownotes! Pray for someone anonymously. Choose someone in your life that you don’t regularly pray for and pray for them on Valentine’s day. Bonus points if you leave them an anonymous note letting them know you prayed for them. Thank a priest. Our priests need our prayers, but they also need to know how much we love and appreciate them. Valentine’s day is a great opportunity to do just that. Send a priest a note or a gift to let them know you love them, appreciate them, and are grateful for their service to the Church. Visit a single person in your life (or at least send them a Valentine note). It might be the widow who lives in your neighborhood or the 20-something who goes to your church. Reach out to someone single who might be feeling lonely on a day that celebrates romantic love. Be randomly generous at a diner. It goes like this: Meet friends for lunch. You each bring a $100 bill. Order lunch and then when it’s time to pay, give the server all of the cash as a generous tip. You can adjust the amounts to what makes sense for you, but I love this fun and creative idea! Send “I love you because” notes. Let your family members and friends know what you love and appreciate about them. Send small notes of appreciation for them on this day set aside for love—a great excuse to get a little mushy!

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0:00.0	Girlfriends, episode number 209, five creative ways to spread love on Valentine's Day.
0:12.1	Hello and welcome to girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission to help you.
0:18.5	Know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance,
0:21.5	and joy and family living.
0:23.0	This week, we are talking about some creative ways to spread love.
0:26.4	Have some fun this Valentine's Day.
0:28.3	Let's get going.
0:43.4	Hey, girlfriends, how are you? Welcome to the newest episode of the Girlfriends Podcast. I am thrilled that you are here joining me today. Always love to connect here on the
0:49.2	podcast. By the time this publishes, it's going to be almost Valentine's Day, just a few short days away.
0:56.2	How do you feel about Valentine's Day? Are you one of those practical people who rolls your eyes at the idea of going out to dinner with all the crowds and the overpriced dinners on Valentine's Day?
1:07.1	Or are you somebody who puts a lot of eggs in this basket? I know both kinds of people. I think I've
1:13.9	been both kinds of people. And I always find it's interesting how women respond to days like
1:19.4	Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, our anniversary or our birthday. For sure, we all have different
1:25.1	temperaments and we approach these things differently. Some of us are really focused on that love language of gift giving, for example. And so if you're
1:34.6	familiar with the five love languages, one of them is giving gifts. And that's how we receive love,
1:40.4	and that's how we understand love, and that's how we prefer to express love. And I'm sure you know
1:44.9	people like this, like people you know who are awesome gift givers who are always giving a gift for
1:48.9	whatever occasion, always have just the right thing and it means a lot to them to choose the right
1:52.6	gift for people. So I think for people like that, days like Valentine's Day can be really loaded
1:58.2	because if you are a great gift giver, then you are hoping to experience
2:04.2	receiving love in that same way and maybe not always getting exactly what you have planned in
2:11.5	your mind. So I think sometimes days like Valentine's Day can set people up for disappointment
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