Is St. Francis Reminding Us to Look to the Virtues?

St. Francis is writing here in these chapters, he makes the point that like religious formation, and I think this is the case with a lot of things. When we have habits formed when we're younger, they're just easier to live. And by contrast, when we're older, they might be in, you know, we have habits that are contrary to the Christian life, they're harder to reform. But at the same time, where our hope ought to be placed is not in our sort of ability to rewrite our own habits, but in the reality that Christ wants us,. That he gives us the grace for conversion.