Now, before we go any farther, I'd like to refresh our sense of what love is. It's a four-letter word. There's a lot of yerpy songs written about it. But we don't always think carefully about what it means. Love is not just nice, warm feelings.
Love often includes our emotions.
But it is not only, or even primarily, an emotional thing. In the way that 1st John means it, and in the way which thoughtful Christians have interpreted it, love means walking the way Jesus walked. Walk with Jesus, and you'll learn about love. Love means living as a branch of the vine. Love means opening ourselves to the Spirit which Jesus had.