Through the Eye of the Needle

“In Jesus Christ, God lays bare his heart in the total vulnerability of being fully human, to the point of permitting himself to be crucified. He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, as the prophet Isaiah says. He knew joy, but he accepted the suffering of our state in life. He accepted it because he knew that in the passage through the ‘eye of the needle’ a great secret is to be found. The priceless secret is that on the other side of the needle’s eye is a vast and beautiful kingdom—an infinite kingdom in which the beauty of God the Father is ever creating more and more beauty, more and more love. And even in this present world we, who are created in the image and likeness of God, can reflect this. Like him, following his example, we must go through the eye of the needle, which is to say through the Cross. For most of us, this is a lifelong journey, with many trials and errors, and even some false trails. Yet, because Christ is who he says he is, because he is Love, he is always leading us back on the path that will bring us to the Father.”
~Michael O’Brien