A friend wrote to Neville that same week describing an experience of his own. Sensing his own departure from this life as imminent -- feeling, as Paul had, that he had 'finished the race' -- he was troubled by a sense of unfinished business: a friend he wanted to help before going. Before retiring, he affirmed 'I am Christ, I am God,' and in that identification granted her the blessing he wished for her, resting completely satisfied that the act itself was already an accomplished fact, without needing to wait for any outward confirmation.