When someone who loves you gives you a gift, you can accept the gift or turn it down, either way "a gift" by virtue of the word implied is not something earned, not something for which you "do" anything. If you receive it, it is yours, if you reject it, you do not have it. I don't know any way to explain it in simpler terms.
If I have free will, I can choose to accept a gift or turn it down.
A choice is an act of free will.
Would you agree?