You've seen the ads. Boy looks into girls eyes. Heart strings go boingy boingy. And they boogie in delight across the crowded dance floor and off into the sunset. We mistake love for a feeling of attraction or desire of the moment.
Trouble is that emotions come and go.
Last night's beans can affect them. You fall into them and out of them. The word used in 1 Corinthians 13 is a very special word for love. And it is not the word for love between friends, brotherly love, the give and take between equals, the love of 1 Samuel where we read that Jonathan loved David as his own soul. The word of 1 Corinthians 13 is the word agape .