We don't want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember those of others.

I suppose it goes without saying that negative speaking so often flows from negative thinking about ourselves. We see our own faults, we speak--or at least think--critically of ourselves, and before long that is how we see everyone and everything. No sunshine, no roses, no promise of hope or happiness. Before long we and everybody around us are miserable.

It is obvious that the bumper sticker question "What would Jesus do?" will not always bring a popular response.

Sadly enough, my young friends, it is a characteristic of our age that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much, comfortable gods, smooth gods who not only don't rock the boat but don't even row it, gods who pat us on the head, make us giggle, then tell us to run along and pick marigolds.

Let people repent. Let people grow. Believe that people can change and improve.

HAPPINESS comes first by what comes into your head a long time before material BLESSINGS come into your hand.

Trust in God. Hold on to His love. Know that one day the dawn will break brightly and all shadows of mortality will flee.