Often we are not as courteous to our immediate family as we are to strangers. Practically all of the insulting things that are said in this world are to "loved ones" — a wife, a husband, a child. Why not give a smile instead of a snarl? Appreciation instead of criticism? Let us treat our loved ones as well as we do strangers.

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