What Valentines Day REALLY means...
On Valentines Day, I will be going out to the streets of
Philadelphia with a great group of friends from Word On The Street Ministries
to hand out blankets, socks, hats, and food! This year, I’m taking a new
approach on what Valentine’s Day really means. For years, I used to think
Valentines Day was only about sharing it with the one boy I loved and
celebrating our time together. I am a hopeless romantic and have been for as
long as I could remember. This year, I
told myself it’s not about that at all. It’s about so much more. Although,
there’s nothing wrong with celebrating your love with your significant other. I’m
not saying there is but I think we, as a
community, country and world, need to look at Valentines Day through a
different lense.
It starts with loving
yourself and who you were created to be. For awhile, I didn’t love who I
was. In fact, I jumped at every opportunity to change it. I thought I was a
second choice to others, not good enough, fearful and my insecurities also ate
me alive. Through out the years, I have learned that all of my insecurities,
most of my fears, came from finding “love” in all the wrong places. The love
you’re looking for is not in that handsome boy, those fancy clothes, or in
others opinions of who YOU are. The love you’re looking for, is in the one who
created you and the person staring back at you in the mirror. It’s time for you
to single out the great things you ARE and want to become and what God intended
you to do in this life. That’s to love, and to be loved.
Once you find those, meditate on that and you will finally find the love you
were looking for.
After you have found
your love in the right places, the next step is TO LOVE. That’s loving those who need it most. Whether that’s
the fragile homeless man on the corner you pass everyday on your way to work, the
little girl you teach who has a horrible home life or those who are battling something
we can’t even fathom to understand. Once I learned to love myself, flaws included, I learned to love those
who need it most and not just myself.
There is a HUGE
difference between loving yourself, and “looooooooving yourselffffff”. Loving
yourself definitely means loving who you are and who you are going to become.
BUT it also means that you’re not loving yourself selfishly. Looooooovvving
yourselffffff means you’re ONLY loving you and if that’s what you’re doing
right now, I suggest that you run as far as you can from that version of
yourself. You’ll never find the love you’re looking for by loving yourself that
way.
Okay, now that’s out of the way. Let’s get to it --- My
passion for our world is to come together, and help one another. Regardless of
what laws are passed by our president, the supreme court or secretary of
education, it is OUR job, to keep America
the land of hope. It is OUR job, to show love to those who need it most. It is OUR job to fight for those who cannot fight for
themselves. That includes the children growing up in public school districts, those who can’t pay
their medical bills because they’re too high yet need those medications or
surgeries to get a REAL chance at truly living. Its to fight for those who don’t have homes because they lost their jobs and can’t
seem to find another one. Or, to fight for
those who come to America to build a life of success for themselves and their
families because all they have known in
their lives, is poverty and depression.
How can we come together? How can we
help another? Listen. It starts with the
little things. Like hosting a Blanket Drive for those battling
homelessness, so they do not fear the winter. Calling homeless shelters to see,
if they have room for those we pass on the streets. Making Valentines Day cards
for the elderly who live in assisted living facilities ALONE, who don’t receive
visitors. It starts with, making capes for children in the hospital battling
life threatening illnesses. Those children who feel weak and filled with fear
for their future to show them… they are OUR superhero’s for being able to still
fight at such a young age. That they are STRONGER, than they feel because WE can see it... If only they could too, maybe they
wouldn’t feel as weak or live in such fear. That their battle will one day be a testimony to someone else to keep
fighting.
It’s OUR job to
create success in this country for others. It’s OUR job to lift others up. Remember, Valentines Day isn’t just about
the romance we see on the hallmark channel. It’s so much more, and I
hope you take the second to look away from the romance, and look towards our
community and how you can show love to them this holiday.
If you’d like to
#SpreadLove this Valentines Day, you can join Fearless Movement and Word On
The Street Ministries by going to Philadelphia and serving our community. If
you have plans, no worries! You can also help by either donating USED or NEW
blankets, gloves, hats and socks, for those battling homelessness. Or, donate
to Fearless Movement so that we can purchase more and more capes for our
children who are in local hospitals by us. It’s time that YOU become the change, we rant on
facebook about. It’s time, that we come together, and love one another.
God so loved the WORLD, not just God blesses America. Help bless ALL.
Another Reminder : International Epilepsy Awareness Day
is FEBRUARY 13TH! Wear purple to spread awareness for those battling
#Epilepsy.
Contact us today for either volunteer
opportunities or donations at thefearlessmovement@gmail.com
or (856)-558-2385
Remember, our job is to feel loved and
to be loved. Where are you looking for love?
Xoxo,
Ashley Kulikowski
Founder of Fearless Movement
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