We Never Fully Know Those We Love

answered by First Corinthians, Chapter 13

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🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

A River Runs Through It (1992)

dir. Robert Redford · USA

Two brothers grow up under the same parents yet walk utterly different roads. The gifted, precarious younger one is loved by his brother and family, who nonetheless can neither understand nor save him. What does it mean to keep loving one you can neither fully know nor hold?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

Do I put off loving someone because I cannot fully understand them?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face.

💡 TL;DR

Paul said that now we know one another only dimly, as through a clouded glass.

📝The Classic Answers

Paul said that now we know one another only dimly, as through a clouded glass. Even family is so. I do not fully know the sibling I grew up with, the one I have spent a lifetime beside. When a loved one walks a road that ruins them, we can neither fully understand nor save them. Yet failing to understand fully does not mean failing to love. If understanding were love's condition, no one could love anyone. I choose to stay near without knowing all, to love even when I cannot save. Love is not the completion of understanding, but the heart that remains beyond it.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

Toward a close one you cannot understand, spend a day simply being present before trying to understand.

📖 Classic Source: First Corinthians, Chapter 13. Ancient text in the public domain; rendered and interpreted independently by ONGO.
The film is honored as an equal questioner; its plot is rendered only as a universal dilemma. The classic source is an ancient text (Public Domain), and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.