Cynthia Bourgeault describes love in Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation: Love Endures. “‘Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things (1 Corinthians 13:7).’ ‘Love bears all things.’ This does not mean a dreary sort of putting-up-with or victimization. There are two meanings of the word bear, and they both apply. The first means ‘to hold up, to sustain’—like a bearing wall, which carries the weight of the house. . . .To bear [also] means ‘to give birth, to be fruitful.’ So love is that which in any situation is the most life-giving and fruitful. ‘Love believes all things.’ . . . [This] does not mean to be gullible, to refuse to face up to the truth. Rather, it means that in every possible circumstance of life, there is . . . a way of perceiving that leads to cynicism and divisiveness, a closing off of possibility; and there is a way that leads to higher faith and love, to a higher and more fruitful outcome. To ‘believe all things’ means always to orient yourselves toward the highest possible outcome in any situation and strive for its actualization. ‘Love hopes all things.’. . . a source of strength that wells up from deep within you independent of all outcomes. . . . It is a hope that can never be taken away from you because it is love itself working in you, conferring the strength to stay present to that ‘highest possible outcome’ that can be believed and aspired to. Finally, ‘love endures all things.’ . . .The only way to endure is to forgive, over and over, to give back that openness and possibility for new beginning which is the very essence of love itself. And in such a way love comes full circle and can fully ‘sustain and make fruitful,’ and the cycle begins again, at a deeper place. And conscious love deepens and becomes more and more rooted.”