. . . His eyes can hardly see for pain, and yet, and yet if you stand
yourself beneath his cross oh, do not kneel, or bend your head, but
raise your eyes and see! if you stand on very tip-toe, then you will
find, to your great sorrow, but his small comfort, that you can reach to
soothe the very face of God' So ends the haunting title piece of this
richly imaginative collection of stories. In it we encounter the infant
Christ, both vulnerable and divine; the laughing, loving Christ, who
delights in us and cares for us; the sorrowful Christ, who suffers on
our behalf and draws comfort from our love. Weaving through the book is
the theme of Eden - once lost but now restored to us by Christ's saving
work on the cross. And our eyes are opened to the possibility of
rediscovering Eden for ourselves, as we explore who we truly are in God.