“Everything in the gospel teaches us that we can change if we need to, that we can be helped if we truly want it, that we can be made whole, whatever the problems of the past.”

“Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.”

“Sometimes we need to go home to find the parts of ourselves we left behind before we can truly become whole.”

“We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.”

“What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.”

“Are you saying that we can affect what happened in the past? That we can change it?”