October 6, 2022

“Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.” (1 Corinthians 13:12)

A friend’s grandfather was fond of saying, “It’s what you learn after you know everything that really counts.”

 So good! Like Bono in The City of Blinding Lights: “The more you see, the less you know/ the more you find out as you go / I knew much more then/ Then I do now.” I wonder if wisdom is the realization that you lack it? Certainly, Paul’s word about knowing (not knowing, really) grounds us in both wonder (so much more to learn!)  and humility (so much that I think I know that I really don’t).

“O God, by the leading of a star you manifested your only Son to the Peoples of the earth: Lead us, who know you now byfaith, to your presence, where we may see your glory face to face; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reignswith you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (The Epiphany- BCP)