The word of the day is “free.”  Yesterday’s comment left Paul in a spiritual impasse.  In our reading, St. Paul described two contending inclinations.  These seemed to cancel each other out.  Indeed,  for those who strive to be “accounted righteous” by their own powers, they do nullify each other.  In this state of spiritual paralysis between these two impulses, Paul cried out, “Who will deliver me from this body of death” (OSB Romans 7:24),  this state of the natural inclination to sin? Today, in our reading of Romans 8:2-13, we hear the answer of grace.  The apostle writes, “For the law of the Spirit of life has set me free from the law of sin and death” (OSB vs. 2).…