Song Of Solomon 8:6-7Psalm 1001 Corinthians 13

Some of us here today will remember The Four Aces, a popular singing group from the mid 1950s, and their hit recording of "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing." Indeed, love is a many splendored thing -- a truth celebrated and attested to us by the special fascination of weddings, with their wonderful music, bright smiles and all those new or rented clothes.

But that is only the half of it. Love also is a many splintered thing. It is one of the two most basic human emotions, the other of which is hate, according to some understandings of psychology. Both emotions are always present in every human relationship.

If these elements are so important to human personality and to the ways we relate to one another, then surely one of life's major challenge…