The right side is the bright side ultimately but not always immediately. We are not called to be pulpit Pollyannas wearing rose-colored glasses and painting the clouds with sunshine. Paul’s contemporaries may have explained his dark picture of the last days by saying, “He is just a bilious old bachelor in a Roman jail, and everything looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.” Someone may have reminded him that one can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, but Paul was not in the fly-catching business, anyway.