What is it about concupiscence that makes it so perdurable? Why am I attracted to something which repulses me? Are appetitive powers able to arrest the will so completely? Well, at any rate, Paul put it more succinctly than I am able to: "I am a thing of flesh and blood, sold into the slavery of sin. My own actions bewilder me; what I do is not what I wish to do, but something which I hate."

But where evil abounds grace is said to abound all the more. And anywise, I've been bought back from sin. Somebody should really let sin know that. Jeez...