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(Do you generally agree with this?)
If you see someone in a situation* that would cause embarrassment if you gossiped about it, and if they see you seeing them – (1) decide right away not to talk about it and then (if appropriate i.e. it won’t cause more embarrassment) (2) tell them that you aren’t going to talk about it.
* Assuming that this isn’t some dark sin that someone in authority should hear about. I’m thinking more along the lines of an inadvertent action.
Here’s what I bet you’re thinking right now (two days after the fact):
I wonder what I’d get if I went over to John Piper’s website and searched on the word Valentine.
Well, I’ll save you the trouble! And here is the warning – he has a romantic streak.
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As many of you know the biopsy of my prostate was taken on our 37th anniversary and the surgery happened on Valentine’s Day. That is enough to set a lover’s heart to pondering the meaning of things.
http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Poems/ByDate/1777_The_News/
Noël and I went downtown for a special Valentine‘s Day dinner last February 14. It was one of the many dates I have botched over the 20 years of our marriage. The restaurant I had chosen especially for her was closed. It was cold as we walked around trying to find another one. We wound up at a fast food place in the center of the city sitting by a window overlooking 8th Street.
http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Sermons/ByDate/1989/671_Irrevocable_Joy/
It’s only fit that in our little span
Of married life the good and secret plan
That governs all our feasts and Valentines
Should order some to be blue sky that shines
And others gray and even ominous:
Both serve our love, and sweetly couple us.
http://www.desiringgod.org/media/pdf/books_bvs/bvs.pdf
But here’s a recommendation. Don’t “surprise” her on Valentine’s
Day, or her birthday, or an anniversary. Sure, plan something for
February 14. But a true surprise is unexpected.
http://www.desiringgod.org/media/pdf/books_bssc/books_bssc.pdf
If sunshine
Is a happy sign
That the divine
Is oft benign
And can design
A living shrine
And us refine
And so align
That what is mine
Is also thine,
Then you will surely not decline
To be my only Valentine
