Love is patient and kind – but

I wonder if Patrick knows how extraordinarily fortunate he is to have grasped this while still in his 20s?

Orthonormal Basis: “Love is patient and kind, yes, but it is also harsh, as was Jesus’ rebuke to Peter on the road to Jerusalem. Love does not take offense, but neither is it afraid of giving offense when proper, as Christ offended the Pharisees. Love allows itself to suffer at the hands of others, not with resignation but with joy, like Felicity and Perpetua. Love asks more of us than we can give, like Abraham binding Isaac to the altar. Love is absurd, for it is alien to our natures; it comes to us as a grace we do not ask for in the beginning, sometimes one we never ask for.”