This is the second thing that popped into my head and yes love was one of the thoughts I asked for patience with and yes I did spend some time looking for the perfect version of this to post and yes I found some really beautiful ones with seascapes, beaches, couples, hearts, flowers and all sorts of other cutesy romantic depictions of the verse. Heck I even found a tramp stamp version which I may still post just for the giggle.
But of all those beautiful and elaborate depictions this one stood out the most.
It is simple, it is honest and it is exactly what I wanted to show, that on the most basic level love is all these things. It is not hearts and flowers, it is not romance and passion , it is not grand gestures and wild excitement. It is patient, it is kind, it is gentle and it trusts, it hopes and it perseveres and that it's not love that fails but we as humans that fail. And we fail not because we don't love, we fail because we are human and we put human expectations on love. And it's those expectations that eventually erode love and turn it to hate and bitterness.
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