Love can tolerate imperfection. In a love relationship there are times of boredom, times when I may feel like giving up, times of real strain, and times I experience an impasse. Authentic love does not imply enduring happiness. I can stay during rough times, however, because I can re member what we had together in the past, and I can picture what we will have together in our future if we care enough to face our problems and work them through. We agree with reverend Maier when he writes that love is a spirit that changes life. Love is creative and that transforms. However, Maier does not view love as being reserved for a perfect world. "Love is meant for our imperfect world where things go wrong. Love is meant to be a spirit that works in painful situations. Love is meant to bring meaning into life where nonsense appears to reign." In other words, love comes into an imperfect world to make it livable.