On Freedom

After Reading some of Margrave’s posts, I came across the one titled Freedom/Structure/Vocation. Listen with me:


Speaking for adult commitment rather than a childish "freedom," Williams writes

It is like Wordsworth's sonnet on writing sonnets: once you have the shape, you have a real freedom from distraction and wooliness and wondering what to do next. You concentrate, yet not in a strained and effortful fashion. You have a "home" to work from. To refuse commitment or discipline or structure because you want to safeguard freedom and keep your options open is rather a misunderstanding of freedom. If you never learn a language well, you will be able to say nothing... (156)

Williams then says that when a person explores their identity in God, discovering their own language and structure, they find perfect freedom:

...what does it mean to talk about the service of God being perfect freedom? It means that living with or in or from God provides the structure and shape that most frees us from distractedness and fragmentation of life and thought. (156)

Concluding his thoughts on vocation, Williams writes

Vocation may be to be what we are, but that doesn’t leave us where we are. We shall need to work to find the structure and form of life that is most our own because it leaves us most alert, most responsive, most open to the never-failing grace of God. We have to find the meter for our poem, the key in which to sing our song to God, the cell where we can pray to him, the person in whom we can love him, so as to give “a local habitation and a name,” face and flesh, to our own particular following of Christ. (159)

I think that these ideas, like those of Richard Foster, promote the the need for an absloute(s) in which we can find our freedom. I suppose that in "balancing" one would always be dealing with "distractedness and fragmentation of life and thought." I think i also see a connection between between faith and freedom. Any ideas?