A man is truly free even here in this embodied state if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
Through selfless work love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace...
Discernment is God's call to intercession never to faultfinding.
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it but you can't prove that there aren't any so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?