When we expect trouble, we often suffer more than the trouble itself. Instead of worrying and fretting about tomorrow's problems, we must learn to evaluate them. Often our future troubles are largely the bogies of our imaginations, small torments inflated by fear into grave dangers. And most of them, like all hobgoblins of the night, disappear in the morning light of clear thinking.

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