With all the conflicting views of love in our society, how are we to know which ideas are real and which ones are merely illusions?  The only way to know is through the example of our ever-present Savior, Jesus Christ -- love in carnate.  Convenience and love are not the same things -- maybe that explains why all my past relationships dwindled into meaningless nothing as soon as either my "flame" or I got the least bit busy.  Jesus was busy ALL the time, yet He loved a woman so much that He took the time to save her from a stoning.  Such love persists -- we go to our Savior in prayer and He LISTENS to us.  Oh, we can rest assured that it's not "convenient."  A Father who controls the universe and its seasons takes the time to listen to US, one by one.
    No, love goes a step further than convenience.  Love makes the time to prepare a meal for a family, to drop some change in the hands of a homeless person, and to talk to a long-distance friend.  Love is not always convenient, but love is always willing.  Anything less than this is merely infatuation, lust, or selfishness that defraud the name of love.  "Love never fails..."