perfect love.

It’s a pretty well-known saying “perfect love drives out fear”.

I don’t love diving into wordplay much anymore but it is interesting to me that the word perfect is before love. I don’t know what the original author was getting at it, but right before the line the author says that there is no fear in love.

And then he adds that this mysterious “perfect” love not only doesn’t exist with fear, it actually expels it.

So it would seem part of the point was not to just say that fear and love don’t belong together but that if we want to know how to love better, bigger, more inclusively, more mature, grown-up, and completed love, we can start by driving away fear wherever we see it.

Or on the flip side, wherever we drive away fear, we’re doing some damn good loving.