'We are sent into the world for a short time to say - through the joys and pains of our clock-time - the great "Yes" to the love that has been given to us and in so doing return to the One who sent us with the "Yes" engraved on our hearts. Our death thus becomes the moment of return. But our death can be this only if our whole life has been a journey back to the One from whom we come and who calls us the Beloved.'
Henri JM Nouwen, Life of the Beloved, p.79.
