with the eyes of our own weakness

But here and now the Word which is implicit in the Beginning and in the End is become immediately explicit, and that which hitherto we could only passively fear as the incomprehensible I AM, henceforth we may actively love with comprehension that THOU ART.  Wherefore, having seen Him, not in some prophetic vision of what might be, but with the eyes of our own weakness as to what actually is, we are bold to say that we have seen our salvation.

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And because of His visitation, we may no longer desire God as if He were lacking:  our redemption is no longer a question of pursuit but of surrender to Him who is always and everywhere present.  Therefore at every moment we pray that, following Him, we may depart from our anxiety into His peace.

- W.H. Auden, Meditation of Simeon in For the Time Being