If we are perfected in love, by love, is the rest of us then perfect, or perfected too?

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Just this morning I read something like this in a book by a Christian pastor. “Love can be perfect love, but the rest of you might not be perfect underneath this.” The author then said something like that perfection in love does not necessarily mean perfection in performing in all other areas of your life. For example, a man who was slightly mentally disabled used to feed his sick mother in her bed every night her dinner, for several years. His mother, and he, shared the same house. One day, his mother had a stroke, and so she was taken to hospital, and placed on a drip, as she was also in a coma, and could not eat solid foods. This son sneaked into the hospital somehow and fed his mother her usual solid food dinner, which killed her, as the food went into her lungs, and obstructed the airways instead of down to her stomach. Now, the boy dearly loved his mother, and he sat on the steps of that hospital for days afterwards, so disconsolate-able that he couldn't move. He refused to eat, sleep, or do anything. A pure love like this doesn't always play the right fiddle then, unless you first learn how to play the fiddle properly yourself first. Another case, I heard about was when a young girl, who dearly loved her grandfather, heard that he would visit their house that afternoon. She got his favourite slippers ready, (which they kept in the bedroom that he used to use when he slept over there with them) and she placed them in the oven to warm them up for him, just shortly before he arrived. When he did arrive, though, she completely forgot all about the slippers then, which started to burn in the oven, and then, grandpa smelling the bad smell, went out just in time to turn the oven off before a fire had started. He did not punish his granddaughter, though, because he felt that she had done this as an act of pure love for him, but it was one that she had not then consciously attended to too. The truth is that God’s love always never hurts another, but this type of human love, delivered by the mind of someone who never understands, can hurt, because the love is ignorant love, not carried by conscious knowing of truth, but delivered blindly instead. "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." The above verse comes from the Christian bible book of Saint Matthew, chapter 5, verse 48. Now, what was Jesus Christ actually telling us here exactly, to be perfect in all things, or only to be perfect in love? God is perfect in all things, and the aim of human life is to reach into or up to this perfection, so as to be as close to God as we can be. God is love, so this also means to be perfect in love, but I think that it is not limited to that, as being implied by the writer of the book I was reading. Perfection in all things is acquired from living humbly in truth, which sets you free to be perfect, and perfected, in and by that same truth. Photo Credit: The photo used here was freely sourced from the free media site: pixabay.com. We must recognise that we need the love of God to be perfected. Walk with God in your life. Rest on his staff.