The Apostle Paul in the Love Chapter (1 Corinthians 13), first describes love as patient. It has the ability to put up with messiness. It is necessary, dare I say perfect, for an imperfect world.
Then he describes love as kind, a much under-appreciated, but quite powerful and important attribute. Love doesn’t just put up with imperfect people and circumstances, it gently soothes and supports those afflicted with humanness.
Then Paul describes love by telling us what it is not.
It is not envious of the circumstances of others.
Certainly this applies, not to those who are struggling more than we are, but to those who, in our eyes, have it made. They have nice things and beautiful bodies. Their children are always polite and respectful. They fly private jets to pristine locations where they enjoy elegant activities to include low calorie desserts throughout the day.
Love controls the imagination. It focuses on the more opulent wealth love supplies over material things. It fills the heart with imperishable riches that moth cannot destroy nor thieves steal. It supplies a rest and peacefulness that money cannot purchase and it creates bonds based on love, not envy, with others who become true trusting friends.
Love doesn’t worry about the acquisition of wealth. Instead it seeks to mend and melt hearts in order to transform every place where people live into a heaven-saturated paradise.