Seeing Cole last night moving heaven and hell, even going back through time just to be with phoebe made me think about a lot of things. As a romantically inclined person, I’ve dreamt of having someone like him who will not give up on me no matter what. But the episode of charmed last night made me wonder if that is the love I really want for my self.

It also made me realize that love is really a complicated thing. It is very hard to draw a line between “perfect” and “obsessive” love because both involves caring for a person a lot. And with this I am very grateful that God gave us Corinthians 13: 13 with a guideline of what love is really all about.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

13:4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

13:5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

13:6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

13:8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

But it does not make me like Cole less. In fact I am sad for him; if he has any consolation, it is that I pity him for his love has been unrequited.