The Importance of Freedom in Life

I was speaking to a fellow who over the last year or two had been attracted to Divine Liturgy and Eastern Christianity. He then found himself frustrated with certain things, maybe similar to what Joseph's talking about. And so became an orthodox catacumen for a while. I don't put words in this person's mouth, but it sounded to me that he was saying until he realized there's chaos everywhere,. Like there's mess everywhere and now he's back. So I have a friend who has who went out to go find himself by a lake one time went hiking and I'd forget the whole story, he'll correct me after he sees this. But he found a stick and he was