"Love is a many splendored thing...." Or so we heard Don Cornwall and the Four Aces sing time and again. Of course you or I might have other words to describe love, depending on our situation. 

Love. "I love you." "I love to play golf." "I just love pistachio lush!" "It's tough to love some people." "Jesus loves me, this I know."

Love.

What can be said about love that has not already been said? The writer of the first letter of John obviously thought deeply about love and did his best to write about it. Saint Paul had a similar piece on love which he wrote to the church at Corinth. We know it as the Love Chapter, 1 Corinthians 13. Remember? "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal ... Faith, hope, love abide, these three; …