We are forever trying to make ourselves strong enough to need no Father, and this is the very madness from which Christ calls us to be saved. The child does not calculate whether the arms that hold him are capable of holding him; he simply rests there. So must we learn again to become little, not childish, but utterly dependent, emptied of the proud illusion that we can carry ourselves. Our Heavenly Father does not ask us to understand the whole road before we take the next step. He asks us to trust His hand. And perhaps the hardest lesson of faith is also the simplest: that the Kingdom is entered not by those who have learned to stand alone, but by those who have finally learned to let themselves be held.