Book 14 insists that becoming God’s filial child is not a task that can be postponed to the spirit world. Earthly life is the brief, embodied window where that relationship can be proved through action, endurance, and public-hearted love.
That gives mortality a sharper function than simple testing. Death closes the workshop in which filial piety to God can be demonstrated. Afterward, the record remains, but the proving ground is gone.
This makes ordinary time weighty without making it theatrical. What matters is not intensity for its own sake, but understanding that embodied life offers a relational opportunity eternity itself does not recreate.