Another Porch ...A Poetry Blog: As We Behold, Face to Face

Sunday, July 4, 2021

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.

1 Cor.13:12

Now we see through faith’s glass darkly

But then, face to face, someday

When the murk of all things earthly

Is dissolved and washed away

Then there will be no more questions

As we, behold with rapt gaze

He who tested Best Intention

With Mercy’s mysterious ways

When this splash of dust is settled

And the ash of days wind-blown

We will no longer be nettled

By the whys of the unknown

Then there will be no more sorrow

As we behold, face to face

Without need to beg or borrow

He who saved us by His grace

He, by whom we are forgiven

Teaches us to trust His Word

While the way twixt earth and heaven

Is like a glass darkly blurred

But then, in death’s sacred barter

When we meet its awesome Yet

As we behold God, our Father

All our longings will be met

(and I shall see Him face to face)