It takes death

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The Entombment

And everything on earth, the beauty, the sweetness, the beauty of the earth, is nothing else in the world but an answer to a far better than that, that waits us when we leave this world. For, everything in earth is just a pattern of that which is in Heaven. Everything that’s good, everything that’s righteous, everything that’s beautiful, trees, birds, everything, is just a pattern of what is in Heaven.
Our own life is just a pattern. It’s just a shadow, and not the real thing. It’s the negative side. It takes death to develop the picture, to put us back in the theophany we come from. Then in the resurrection we come in His likeness, a resurrected body. What a beautiful; not only beautiful, but it is the real, solemn Truth of God’s Eternal Word, that we’ll be like Him.

Daily Bread Isaiah 40:18
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

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