beatific vision
I was thinking of the beatific vision. All of life is a suffering journey to see that face, the face of GOD. The face that Moses longed to see and prostrated in haste upon seeing even the Lord's back. It is a face of such beauty that all saints have wandered many a briery furnace to glimpse and denied even the pain of death upon the sight. It is the face from which all other beautiful faces spring ... I think now of my wife and my daughter and my sons ... of my friends ... of strangers who smile with grace upon me. I think it is worth suffering to see that face. I think it is more than worth the journey.