Finally, if love is action, its truth appears in outcomes: greater safety, growth, and freedom. The biblical cadence of 1 Corinthians 13 evaluates love by what it does—patient, kind, not self-seeking—rather than what it feels. hooks follows suit, asking us to audit our relationships and institutions: Do our patterns nurture dignity? Do they repair harm? Do they expand capacity to care? When the answers are yes, feeling is validated by fruit; when no, sentiment is exposed as wishful thinking. Thus the path forward is concrete and teachable: choose practices, sustain them over time, and let love be recognized by the lives it helps to heal. [...]
