In fact, this union, between Creator and creature is meant to quite literally take over our entire lives and enlist us into the army of light fighting for the great destruction of evil and the elevation of truth and goodness and beauty forever.  St. Paul can say, “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me” (Galatians 2:20). The faithful, baptized Christian has the hollow, sucking chasm of blackness and fear that lives inside him replaced by a real, human heart from the most human man to have ever lived. We are forever after molded around His example and teaching, death and life, and we are freed from our slavery to sin, the flesh, and the devil. We no longer have to search for an identity from our neighbors or our friends or our desires; no, our fear and shame have been nailed to the cross along with the Prince of Peace, and we need no longer be afraid or ashamed ever again. Through the resurrection, the real world has broken into this fallen world of lies, and Christ will hold us close to Him as we pass through every temporary horror on the way to our true home. This journey, from death to life, already undertaken by the first fruits of the resurrection—Jesus Christ—this journey begins in our baptism and ends in the new earth to come, and it is this journey which is so vastly more important than all the other temporary quests we may be asked to embark upon. Our entire existence takes its meaning from the God who shared existence with us in the first place, and we are on a journey to be made whole in Him forever.