Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

The aphorism equates emotional separation with a small death: parting diminishes the self because it removes a beloved presence from one’s daily life. By contrast, reunion is figured as “heaven,” not merely pleasant but restorative—suggesting wholeness, peace, and a return to joy. The parallel structure (“as… so…”) intensifies the claim that human attachment gives ordinary events metaphysical weight. Edwards’s language also implies a moral valuation: love makes absence grievous and presence salvific. Read devotionally, it hints that earthly reunions prefigure a final heavenly reunion, a common consolatory theme in Christian thought.