Sinner and Saint (Simul) (3)
  1. People have often tended, quite wrongly, to view me as saintly. I attribute that undeserved reputation to the fact I have always had a very strong sense of the kind of person I should be.
  2. Have you ever grown despondent from trying so hard to stop behaving in certain destructive ways, but always failing?
  3. In response to one of my recent posts on social media, a beloved agnostic friend of mine commented, in part, “What’s with all you religious folk feeling like you’re sinners?