And at the same time, you never were not there. Even in terms of how people define God... the eternal "I Am" (present tense). You are complete, whole, valid, and fully actualised right now and at every single point in your journey. And at each point as you continue to move through your journey, you will still be all of those things, but you will also be different.

If you look at existance from the perspective of seeing the whole all at once, you can see the perfection of each moment and how it fits perfectly into the whole in relation to all of the other moments. None of them have any greater or lesser validity than any of the others, because all were/are equally needed in order to help bring about what happens next.