When you realize how precious this life really is, you live differently. You understand time is precious and all earthly things are fleeting. Yet life in the flesh does not stop there. God became Man.
What is most important is feeling it all in the flesh because that is the fullness of this earthly existence. This has little to do with carnal knowledge (because that is fleeting) and has most to do with bodily expressions of authentic love (because that is lasting). This is more than Christian anthropology. This is about each of us becoming who God created, feeling it all around and all beyond.
"Feeling it all" is a truly sacramental encounter. This is ultimately about an incarnational experience in which the authenticity of human nature reciprocates its genuine dignity with divine love.
You feel it all because Love has transfigured you. You abide in the divine presence, which is beyond self. You seek the divine in the present moment. You truly love. You experience God. And then you want to remain in Love. You seek shelter in Him who is Being With. You believe you are God's beloved. This is who God made you to be, a person being in a communion of love.
When you surrender all to God, you are not left with nothing but have everything. You feel it all because this life in the here and now is not enough, yet too much to handle alone. And that's the key.
God created us to be in communion. Yet we struggle to understand this. We struggle to appreciate and too often confuse communion with a contract instead of a covenant. This is the great biblical lesson that is dearly missed by today's modern relativistic mindset. A communion of persons in love is one of self-giving, not one of mutual exchange. A communion of persons in love is one of self-sacrifice, not one of equality or even equity.
Communion is so foreign to our fallen nature that the primacy of grace is required to empower the genuine human being of self. You understand when you have lost all and surrendered everything to God. It is only then that you gain beyond measure. The most common experience of this is Music when it touches the heart. You gain a glimpse of Communion when you experience and understand music as moving you beyond self to being with.
This is the Paschal Mystery that is for us, flesh in life, "real presence." Your old self must die to be reborn to new self. You must empty yourself in flesh to be resurrected in a new body. You must be incarnated sacramentally. And Christ is the only model. God became man so you and I might become Christ to one another. In Him, who is Lord, we are servants to one another.
Your body is essential to your soul, else God would not have become Man, nor would have taken on and conquered Death in bodily way. Only the mortal body can overcome Death and be resurrected. Therefore you incarnate must fully experience death to enter Eternal Life. Yet never alone. To pass through death, you must die in Christ. There is no other way to rise in eternal life.
