1 John 3:1-3

(Painting by Tad Retz)

See what love the Father has bestowed on us

   in letting us be called the children of God.

Yet that is what we are.

   Dearly beloved,

we are God’s children now;

   what we shall later be has not yet come to light.

We know that when it comes to light

   we shall be like him,

for we shall see him as he is.