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4 days ago · While we are here, we see through a glass, darkly. And we see just as darkly when we gaze into the mirror. When I think about the challenge of authentic self-awareness, I often recall Regan’s words about her foolish father, King Lear: “He hath ever but slenderly known himself.”
1 day ago · Today, we find ourselves on earth, seeing, as the Apostle Paul wrote, “through a glass darkly,” or, as the Revised English Bible renders it, “we see only puzzling reflections in a mirror.” The memories of our first estate and our premortal family relationships are blocked temporarily from our conscious minds.
4 days ago · As 19th-century poet Percy Shelley described it, “Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, / Stains the white radiance of Eternity.” That is, eternity is white radiance, but we, creatures bounded (for the moment) in time, perceive it as fragmentary and distorted. Or as Paul wrote, “Now we see through a glass, darkly” (1 Cor. 13:12, KJV).
2 days ago · The Bible describes God as a loving and holy being who is the creator of the universe (Genesis 1:1, Psalm 103:8). God is also depicted as a God of justice, who hates sin and rebellion against Him (Isaiah 61:8, Psalm 5:4). The Bible teaches that God is a triune God, consisting of the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit ( Matthew ...
4 days ago · 12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
5 days ago · Posted by techdirector | Jul 11, 2024 | Health & Living, Personal Stories | 0. Four glasses left from Marilyn’s Shapiro’s dowry. By MARILYN SHAPIRO. In ancient times, Jewish brides may have brought into marriage a nedunyah , or dowry, “those assets of the wife which she of her own free will entrusts to her husband’s responsibility.”
7 hours ago · Glass has a history entwined with a show of wealth leading back to the time of the pharaohs. ... For Now We See Through A Glass, Darkly. A messy dinner table - Terelyuk/Shutterstock.
