Love is patient. Love is kind. When Paul talks to Christians about the kind of love that is the mark of Christian life, the kind of love that makes a community a church, he does not describe some kind of passionate feeling or altered emotional state. He talks about a particular kind of behavior. Love is patient.
Love is kind.
Now I want to make it very clear that the church and scripture and Christian faith and the preacher, none of us have anything against romance. It s a wonderful thing. The heart gets swept away. The feet get lifted up off the ground. The mind is consumed with thoughts of the beloved.