The generational divide is as seismic as shifting continental plates, as immutable as the characteristics that separate the species and one of God’s mysteries. Each generation is wired for the future yet tethered in some sense to the past. In the face of uncertainty, memoir has grown in popularity. How far down recent or ancient paths must we go to bring our own faces into focus?

Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 1 Corinthians 13:12 (NIV)