there are desires within us that work against the life of the Spirit within us—desires rooted in selfish ambition, pride, lust, fear, self-protection and many other unexamined motives. These desires lurk within all of us, and that is why giving any attention at all to desire feels like opening up Pandora’s box. But it is even riskier to refuse to acknowledge what’s real within us, because whether we acknowledge them or not, these dynamics are at work
