My life is incomparably better now than before.
But that doesn't mean that there aren't still things that I don't like about it sometimes.
It isn't as if my emotional growth - which has brought me the freedom to examine myself and my life rather than cowering in guilt or in fear of self-discovery - is not without its negative aspects, though they are far outweighed by its benefits. It seems to me that, as with every good gift, I must continue to receive it in the context that helps me walk each day along the way to which I am called. Introspections that yield disaffection are not of any use.
The main thing, it seems to me, is to spend more time and energy focusing on my relationships with God and with others than skulking about in my own brain attending to my self interests, on the attractions of novelty, or chasing after the aroma of death that leads to death (2 Cor 2, 16).
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