Meditation on Passivity

I was thinking about passivity the other day in my prayers, and it seemed to me that there were two ways in which one might be passive. There is a kind of passivity which, in the long run, is a submission to God, and another kind which rebels. The first says, “I will let God’s will happen,” and the other, “I will not do God’s will.” The problem is that inactivity is itself a type of action, one of those little decisions which C. S. Lewis describes as “turning this central thing into a heavenly creature or a hellish creature.”