A woman said she washed the same dishes every day and if they were all stacked up, they would be higher than the Washington Monument. Yes, life is often colorless and monotonous. Every day, we get up, eat, go to work, then come home and go to bed again. But life is what we make of it. It depends on our attitude. Pull yourselves together.

Thoughts by the late Rev. Paul Osumi are selected weekly by his family.