When you don't feel like it also counts

There are good things you don't feel like doing: asking for forgiveness, studying, praying, tidying up, stopping a harmful conversation. If you only do good when it matches your desires, your desires end up ruling. Christian maturity learns to respect desire without making it king. Sometimes the freest thing of the day will be doing with peace what you did not feel like doing. This is not about becoming hard, but about gaining freedom. When the will is not trained, it depends too much on the environment, tiredness, or mood. Small acts, repeated with patience, make choosing the good easier.