sliding into being a human...
Because we have our own unique ministry, and we have received mercy—seeing that we also have hope—we come to you in the plainest of speech, renouncing the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, and in fear of hell: not handling God’s word in deceit. Nay, but with our open faces beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, and changed into the near image from glory to glory that we may manifest the the truth as witnessed in the conscience of man, and towards the purpose of the common universal God. [2 Corinthians 3, 4] <mike> Watching black become grey become blue—the implacable, unstoppable slide into being human. As more learned men said, what was intended by God happens with or without our own ordination. His mercy is given where it is given, and we were, each of the faithful, imputed our measure of faith from the first day. Its a temporal glimmer yielding to futility. But that's very human: us of proudest individual impermanence, or self-defeating hum...