Sometimes this is because many people think that Jesus, having been divine, stopped being divine and became human, and then, having been human for a while, stopped being human and went back to being divine (at least, that’s what many people think Christians are supposed to believe). More often it’s because our culture is so used to the Platonic idea that ‘heaven’ is, by definition, a place of ‘spiritual’, ‘non-material’, reality, so that the idea of a solid body being not only present but thoroughly at home there seems like a category mistake. The ascension invites us to rethink all this;”
— Surprised by Hope: Original, provocative and practical by Tom Wright
Joy of new life, yet to come 