Dare We Take The Hand That's Offered?

Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, 
and to give more than we either desire or deserve….       The Book of Common Prayer, p. 234.

The first line of Sunday’s Collect begins, “God, you are always more ready to hear than we are to pray,” and that’s got me thinking. 

God is always ready to hear us; always listening and available to us. 

Do we do our part to nurture that relationship – or do we relegate God to the shelf except during times of distress or on Sunday mornings?

God’s ongoing desire for us is for us to be in relationship. Rodin’s sculpture called “The Cathedral” (pictured) encapsulates this idea. God has offered the hand. Do we take it? Because to be drawn into what we call “life in Christ” is to take that offered hand and to allow its grip to take hold of our hearts and minds and spirits.

Dare we take hold of it?