Conversions

Today in class, we discussed the story of Paul. Paul was a Christian persecutor before his conversion. This reminded me of a recent story where a neo-nazi in Poland recently found out he was Jewish. Story here (http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/09/23/poland.jewish/index.html). This interested me because I am from Poland and know that the Polish neo-nazi gangs are incredibly ruthless. In the article, the convert mentions he doesn't hold a grudge against himself for his previous actions. This makes me wonder about how Paul felt about his previous actions. The issue I wanted to talk about was guilt. It's important to feel guilty in some situations but, it's also important not to let guilt linger forever. I seem to have a problem with letting guilt linger. I feel guilty about thing that happened 5-10 years ago. So what's the proper way to deal with guilt? People often tell me religion helps people deal with guilt because you can settle things with God. This is something I'd like to investigate further.