We’re old, but not as old as the dances we danced tonight. Here in San Antonio, at the historic Menger Hotel, we joined other reenactors of the War Between The States in dances of the times. The year my great-grandfather was born, these were the popular dances.

Our entourage of six couples came down Friday, and will return on Sunday. Plenty of fun. A lovely way to spend Valentine’s Day.

Love. It’s the best step in the dance.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
- 1 John 4:7-16