TCR 694 [7]
'Everlasting rest,' he said, 'is not leisure,
since that reduces the mind and so the whole body
to a state of feebleness, torpidity, stupidness and somnolence . . .
So everlasting rest is a rest that banishes all those ills
and makes people alive.
This can only be something that uplifts the mind.
So it is some interest or task which excites, enlivens and delights the mind.
This depends upon the purpose for which, in which and towards which it aims.
This is why the whole of heaven is seen by the Lord as a coherent purpose,
and it is the purpose he serves
that makes every angel an angel.
The pleasure of service carries him along,
as a favorable current does a ship,
and confers upon him everlasting peace and the rest peace gives.
This is what is meant by everlasting rest from labors.
The extent to which an angel is alive
depends upon his mental commitment arising from service.
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