Kindred,
A wonderful, beautiful and great teacher once said, "focus on the good within, develop and work it until it is all that you are, all that you do and the bad will fall away."
The trick is to remember sage teachings and apply it to your life.
Great teachers not only teach you how to be a better person, but how to endure and overcome the valleys and tragedies in life.
The same concept applies to reading the Good Book.
You have to apply love of the Lord and the love of humanity, in order for grace to be realized in yourself and in the world.
