Even our Doubts: Doubt, Afterlife, and Resurrection

Even our doubts reflect the truth of the Resurrection. I know that there are times when I don't feel like life after death will be real; it seems so distant. And yet, perhaps that is because a disembodied life after death is not the fullness of what God wants for us. Human beings are not complete creatures without their bodies, and so even though humans in heaven have the beatific vision, and therefore the fullness of overflowing happiness, they still don't have all that God means for them. They still "groan inwardly as [they] wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of [their] bodies" (Rom 8:23). I know in this I disagree with St. Thomas Aquinas' later statements, but on the whole I find his earlier statements on the topic more biblically sound. I reproduce them here:

It is manifest that the happiness of the saints will increase in extent after the resurrection, because their happiness will then be not only in the soul but also in the body. Moreover, the soul's happiness also will increase in extent, seeing that the soul will rejoice not only in its own good, but also in that of the body. We may also say that the soul's happiness will increase in intensity. For man's body may be considered in two ways: first, as being dependent on the soul for its completion; secondly, as containing something that hampers the soul in its operations, through the soul not perfectly completing the body. As regards the first way of considering the body, its union with the soul adds a certain perfection to the soul, since every part is imperfect, and is completed in its whole; wherefore the whole is to the part as form to matter. Consequently the soul is more perfect in its natural being, when it is in the whole--namely, man who results from the union of soul and body--than when it is a separate part. But as regards the second consideration the union of the body hampers the perfection of the soul, wherefore it is written (Wisdom 9:15) that "the corruptible body is a load upon the soul." If, then, there be removed from the body all those things wherein it hampers the soul's action, the soul will be simply more perfect while existing in such a body than when separated therefrom. Now the more perfect a thing is in being, the more perfectly is it able to operate: wherefore the operation of the soul united to such a body will be more perfect than the operation of the separated soul. But the glorified body will be a body of this description, being altogether subject to the spirit. Therefore, since beatitude consists in an operation, the soul's happiness after its reunion with the body will be more perfect than before. (Supplement, Q. 93)

So, it seems to me that even our doubts when we think of a life after death can reinforce the Christian idea that our real destination is the Resurrection of the Body.