I am very taken by what Paul says. He claims, "I am not ashamed...." Most of us have known people, maybe a lot, maybe a few, and they are ashamed of something.

I struck up a conversation with a woman I had known for a couple of years. I thought I knew her fairly well. One day she blurted out that she had been married four times. I said, "You never mentioned it."

She said, "I guess I'm ashamed."

A man lost his job. That was hard enough. What made it more difficult is that he lost the job because he was caught taking a box of envelopes out of the office for personal use. He never mentioned it to anybody. He couldn't tell his family the real reason. He was ashamed.

There's a newlywed whose marriage is not going well. When he was a little boy some things happened that he never told anybody…