Passionate participation

"Fiery Furnace"

Artist: Toros Roslin

Image from Wikimedia Commons

We do, indeed, need to let go of any desire we may have to be spoon fed:

If you want a television, you go out and work for it and you buy it. If you want to learn about Aztec pottery, you take a course. But the relationship with God requires the active and passionate participation of you, yourself. You have to risk it. You have to abandon yourself to it. You have to leap into the fire. Nobody will do it for you; nobody can do it for you.

-- Andrew Harvey