There are some things I know about myself. One is that I often struggle with self discipline. There are areas where I am disciplined and there are others where I am not. I want freedom--or what I think is the freedom to do what I want. But, often that isn't true freedom. "Man's perennial efforts to take himself in hand, however he attempts it, lead to the greatest bondage in which man misses what he was meant to be. Man's true freedom does not consist of the unfettered power to direct his life, either in a political or in a Stoic sense. It lies in life with God, lived as it was originally intended by God for man. He only gains this as he denies himself. Paradoxically, the free man does not belong to himself. He belongs to him who has set him free." J. Blunck Last year, I read the book Distracted by Maggie Jackson. I read about her ideas about the damage media is doing to our lives and minds. Our attention spa...