Transformed Into the Image of Christ

As a jeweler focuses his eye with a steady gaze upon a diamond to see its glittering facets and marvel at its brilliance; so we have looked at the diamond of the fruit of the Spirit, whose facets are “love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”  Each facet of the fruit of the Spirit has been held before our mind’s eye (the eye of faith) in its Biblical meaning, in its reflection in the lives of the saints, and in its perfect...