In 2 Corinthians 3:18, God’s word says, “We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image from glory to glory.” Your growth in glory, then, is fueled by seeing the glory of another, an outter glory, a glory set apart from you. And, conversely, your growth in glory will be stunted by following yourself around with a mirror. It has been said that one of the liberating things about becoming a Christian is the liberty from keeping one of those wretched diaries where the author ruminates on the course of his own thoughts and emotions. Reading one of those entries is like watching a cat chase its tail, amuzing for a moment, then insufferable. 

The veiled man can think over his own thoughts, ponder what could be, and he can reason about why he feels so happy, or sad, or dead to the world. But he cannot see the bright morning star in the east, or the harvest moon in autumn. He cannot suck the marrow out of creation through his sheeted face. The torn veil means it is time to live as Lewis once suggested, “Open your eyes and ears. Take in what is there and give no thought to what might have been there or what is somewhere else.”

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