Responsibility. We all would say that it’s an important feature of adult life. We all would say that we as people need to take responsibility for our actions, our lives, and our engagement with the world. We all would say that it’s wrong to simply expect everyone else to do everything for us. This is what it means to graduate from childhood to adulthood. We learn and we grow, and then we take our place within our families and communities as contributors, taking responsibility for our jobs, our deeds, and our lives. Except when we are talking about our relationship with Jesus.

For some reason, when we think about Jesus, we imagine that upon baptism, confirmation, and occasional communion, that our job is done, that our role is to sit back, receive His gift of grace, and then allow Jesus to…