You cannot be happy within yourself if you hate yourself for what you are or for what you have done. You cannot be happy if you have stooped to the base and low when you know you should have stood for the noble and high. You need not run forever from yourself nor bear forever the burden of a bad conscience and sense of guilt. With God's help you can make a new start and live a new life.

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