The risen Jesus, who now dwells with his Father, was welcoming me home after a long journey.
This experience was the realization of my oldest and deepest desires. Since the first moment of consciousness, I have had the desire to be with Jesus. Now I felt his presence in a most tangible way, as if my whole life had come together and I was being enfolded in love. The homecoming had a real quality of return, a return to the womb of God.
— Henri J. M. Nouwen, Beyond the Mirror