We could not be ethereal sprites unmoored from this earth or our own earthiness, literally or figuratively. From the ground we were made and back to the ground we would go, but God had seen fit in filling us creatures of earth with the very breath of heaven, with the wind of eternity. So it was not the devil who had the last laugh but us—and God. We who were made from the mud of Eden and who would be devoured by maggots as we returned to the soil would be resurrected on the Last Day, would fly in the air to meet with the loving Lord and King who made us, and both of us would have bodies, young
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