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CONDEMNED BY CONSCIENCE
Wrong doing robs us of true happiness. No one is happier than the person whose conscience is clear. Brendan Behan, an Irish playwright… virtually drank himself to death. After his death, his biographer wrote about the compulsion that constantly drove him to drunkenness. You see… He lived and died with an unrelenting sense of guilt. He went to England on a mission for the I.R.A. One day he planted a bomb… set to go off during rush hour. It exploded as a young woman with her baby was passing by. Both died in the blast! Brendan Behan was overwhelmed with guilt for killing that innocent woman and her baby. And as time went on… he increasingly tried to drown his memories… and silence his conscience in a bottle… without success! Unresolved guilt takes a higher toll than we realize. Sometimes we think that we can break God’s laws and not experience the effects of guilt. It is only discovery we fear.…