This dust-formed body and soul

I am reading A Theology of the Body by Pope John Paul II. It is a thick book that may take me the better part of a year to get through. Last night, I came across a passage in the book that stopped me. In this part of the book the Pope is ruminating on the initial solitude of man and the implications that has on the body. As he does he makes this statement: "The...text never speaks directly about the body; even when it says 'the Lord God formed man with dust of the ground,' it speaks about man and not the body."  Now I was never explicitly taught that the body, and the body alone, came from the ground. However, I was somehow under the mistaken impression that the body was formed and waited around for the soul. Maybe I thought that when God "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being" was the point at which he was given a soul, but that is not the best reading of the text. 

Now, Augustine helps me out a little bit here when he comments on this passage: "...Already he had a soul, else he would not be called a man; for man is not a body alone, nor a soul alone, but a being composed of both." I do much damage to myself when I unduly divide my body from my soul setting them almost in opposition to each other. My body does not belong to my soul nor my soul to my body. My body and soul are what makes me a man. And both body and soul were initially formed from the dust of the ground and, as a man, quickened by the breath of God himself. 

Now, unless Christ returns first, there will come a time when my soul is separated from my body. But that is so unnatural that it will only be for a short time. I will receive a body like Christ's when he was resurrected. I long for this re-creation of me - body and soul - for that is when I will be the man that God wants me to be. One that is not subject to the presence of sin and one that does not yield myself to its power.