freedom

Could it be that this is not the ability to do what i want, but actually the ability to not do the things that i want to do?
I have imagined evils great and small with ignorant fancy, and it is by grace alone i have the power to resist the desires of my humanity.
I often see prisoners so entrapped with fulfilling every desire they have that they cannot see their own captivity.
It is in my freedom that i see so clearly that i am no beast, that i am more than instincts and urges. I see that i am in the image of one who is greater than this world and all its inhabitants.