That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.
I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.
At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.
When the Soul that is sprung from God's Word and Will is entered into its own desire to will of itself, it will run in mere uncertainty till it return to its Original again.
While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.
When we die, our spirits go to the spirit world, and our bodies return to the elements of the earth until the resurrection.
It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.