reaching top
Carolyn Arends
from I Can Hear You - 1995
"A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" ... This line from a Robert Browning poem has stayed with me since high school -- even in the eleventh grade I knew what it was to strain for something just out of reach. I've come to see the restlessness that defines the human soul as one of the greatest proofs we have that we are destined for more than our present state.
Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. -- I Corinthians 13:12