But now peradventure thou beginnest to be afraid for that which I have said, that charity cannot be gotten by any work that thou canst do; how shalt thou then do. To this I answer, that there is nothing so hard to get as charity; this is truth, as to the getting of it by our own travail and labour. And, on the contrary, I say that there is no gift of God that may so lightly or easily be had as charity, for our Lord giveth no gift so freely, nor so gladly, nor so commonly, as He doth give it. (John Climacus)

I have not read ahead, but I expect Climacus will say that the love of God is available to all who will receive it.

To receive is less a matter of action than being sufficiently present with God to recognize the gift.

But to be present, attentive, and receptive -- rather than working and worried -- is something few of us have mastered.