"When Christ calls a person, He doesn't invite them to a more comfortable, safer life, but rather calls them to follow, even to the point of being prepared to pay a price. At first, this path may seem depriving, restrictive, and exhausting; but at the end, it is discovered that what is truly taken away is not life itself, but the burdens that prevent life from growing freely. Only through obedience is freedom revealed; only through perseverance is the reality of grace revealed."