'Broken fragments
Broken fragments of the full Divine beauty
The highest reaches we can attain here on earth, are but broken fragments of the full Divine beauty . At the best we can only become dimly transfigured — only faintly does the beauty of the Lord appear in us.
The last design made by the great painter, Albert Durer, was a painting showing Christ on His cross. It was all complete, except the face of the Divine Sufferer, when the artist was summoned away by death.
In the same way, at the end of the longest and holiest life, we shall have but a part of the picture of Christ wrought upon our soul. Our best striving, shall leave but a fragment of His matchless beauty. The glory of that blessed Face, we cannot reproduce.
But when we go away from our little fragment of transfiguration — we shall look a moment afterward, at His Divine features — and, seeing Jesus as He is, we shall be like Him!
"Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.
But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus!" Philippians 3:12-14