I completely agree with you in that your statement, «Almost all great stories, novels, myths, and movies have as their core plot the idea of a person who sacrificially gives of himself for others, to rescue and deliver them from some calamity, and in so doing, suffers great personal loss, but ultimately
rises into glory,» is no coincidence.
Some names are steadily
rising into their glory, while others are slumping ever downward, leaving their heyday behind them.
Not exact matches
Then will the dead
rise, the judgment will take place, and to some the heavenly
glory will be revealed while others will be cast
into the flames of hell, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
So Peter with an extraordinary completeness presents us with the Christ who pre-existed in history and before history began (1:10, 11, 20), the Christ who came to this earth and who suffered and died for men on the cross (1:16 - 22; 2:24), the Christ who descended
into Hades and so tasted the full bitterness of death (3:19), the Christ who
rose from death (1:3, 21; 3:21), the Christ who ascended
into glory (1:11; 3:22), and the Christ who will come again (1:7, 13; 4:7; 5:1, 4).
Instead, the
rose stays completely intact, in all its ruffled
glory, no matter how many times you dip your blush brush
into it.
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«To bloom
into full
glory at 94 — whatever Carmen Herrera's slow
rise might say about the difficulties of being a woman artist, an immigrant artist or an artist ahead of her time, it is clearly a story of personal strength,» Mr. Zugazagoitia said.