In the twenty-eight years since the day Mama spoke those words to me, I have never forgotten them. She knew as well as I that it isn’t our righteousness that allows us to see the face of God; it is our right standing and relationship with the Father through what Christ has done for us. Nevertheless, we are promised that though we now see imperfectly, like looking at a poor reflection in a mirror, when we pass out of mortality into immortality, we shall see the Lord face-to-face and see with clarity,