... for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we exist through Him ... We have but fragments of knowledge and glimpses of prophetic insight; but when the complete will come, the fragmentary will be ended ... Now we see bewildering shadows in a mirror, but then we shall see face to face; now I know a fragment of the truth, but then I will know as completely as I am known. The truth is that these three things last for ever - faith, hope, love - and the greatest of them is love.
1 Cor.8:6 (NAS); 13:9-10,12-13 (Bar)

What joy flows through the soul when it doth see
dear loved ones draw e'er closer, Lord, to Thee,
accepting ev'ry moment that Thou art
the Source of all that comes to them, Thy Heart
set on Thy children's growth in knowledge of
Thy Self, till channels they become for Love
- conformed unto the image of God's Son! -
till each of them with Thee, O Lord, is one:
in blessed intimacy all day long:
Thy peace their peace, till life becomes a song
e'en here, in this strange world; so that this span,
this brief time spent where dwells poor hapless man,
becomes a foretaste of what's next to come ...

May they abide in Thee till this life's done!

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You must steadily grow in grace and you must steadily come to know more and more of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ... 'I pray that all of them may be one. I pray that just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, so they too may be in us ... that they may be one as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may be perfectly one ... so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in them' ...
2Pet.3:18 (Bar); Jn.17:21,22,23,26 (Bar).

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