in describing our life after the demise of our body, Jesus used symbols pointing to eternal life as limitlessly enhanced life, as a state of being more intensely alive in an existence which is both perfect fulfillment and yet also endless activity and newness. If death leads eventually to that, then although we shall still think of it…with trembling awe and apprehension, yet it will not evoke terror or despair; for beyond death we…will not be less alive but more alive than we are now.
