rayers or both, the key seems to be looking deep within ourselves to see the reason for our action, to admitting perhaps our jealousy or greed or need for approval or whatever it may be. The action is perhaps sometimes less what we need to confess than to recognize we need to admit the why of what we did or did not do whatever.

Repent. It is safe to do; God does not expect us to be perfect. He does love us, no matter what. He will continue to work with us to bring us to being ever more like Christ, but we need to be honest with him about not only what we did but our motivation for so doing. We are only admitting what God already knows anyway so why should we fear exposing o

When we lived in England several years ago, in our journeys into London we often noted an elderly, somewhat disheveled man walking up and down Oxford Street carrying a placard on a post which read, “Repent for the end is at hand.” Mostly people ignored him, although some did chose to say some nasty things which he appeared to not notice.

In recent days my thoughts have gone back to that old man with his sign. In my workshops for hurting people, the one discussion point that is always raised is the question of guilt. It seems even as Christians we can still find it very hard to accept forgiveness. We all intellectually know the truth of John 3:16. God did love us so much he allowed his Son to suffer so that we could have eternal life, so that our sins could be forgiven. However, knowing that to the depths of our soul seems to be hard for many of us. We often seem to have impossibly high standards for ourselves and then are really hard on ourselves when we fail to measure up. We can even feel we are letting God down.

And, for me, I know guilt is something that can still keep me from having the abundant life we are promised. I can spoil the goodness of my days and not see the constant blessings God is providing because I am so regretting something I have done or said or not done or not said. These days when I find myself in this place, I think again of that old man on the London street. (Sometimes it still can take me a time to remember this, I must be honest to add.)

Yes, I don’t know myself about the “end is at hand” portion of his sign, but the repent part is what I recall. A few years ago I spent many weeks feeling miserable about something that I had said, which then caused a chain of events that were anything but helpful to another person. I could not seem to do anything to get over the deep regret and unhappiness I felt. It colored all of my days.

Repent. Well, it is not a word heard a lot today in many circles. Instead, we are definitely told about God’s love and his forgiveness, true, of course. But, there is something to be said about actually confessing that indeed we have done whatever. Often I would sort of confess in my prayers, saying I was sorry, but still often with a feeling that under the circumstances, who could blame me? Who wouldn’t have acted in the same way? It wasn’t until down on my knees one night I actually confessed not only what I had done, but the not-so-nice reasons why I had done it. I can’t explain it any clearer than to say a huge weight seemed to just fall off my shoulders. I was free.

What I learned that night was that while confession is important, whether our tradition is to confess to a clergy person or to confess in our personal prayers or both, the key seems to be looking deep within ourselves to see the reason for our action, to admitting perhaps our jealousy or greed or need for approval or whatever it may be. The action is perhaps sometimes less what we need to confess than to recognize we need to admit the why of what we did or did not do whatever.

Repent. It is safe to do; God does not expect us to be perfect. He does love us, no matter what. He will continue to work with us to bring us to being ever more like Christ, but we need to be honest with him about not only what we did but our motivation for so doing. We are only admitting what God already knows anyway so why should we fear exposing o

allowed his Son to suffer so that we could have eternal life, so that our sins could be forgiven. However, knowing that to the depths of our soul seems to be hard for many of us. We often seem to have impossibly high standards for ourselves and then are really hard on ourselves when we fail to measure up. We can even feel we are letting God down.

And, for me, I know guilt is something that can still keep me from having the abundant life we are promised. I can spoil the goodness of my days and not see the constant blessings God is providing because I am so regretting something I have done or said or not done or not said. These days when I find myself in this place, I think again of that old man on the London street. (Sometimes it still can take me a time to remember this, I must be honest to add.)

Yes, I don’t know myself about the “end is at hand” portion of his sign, but the repent part is what I recall. A few years ago I spent many weeks feeling miserable about something that I had said, which then caused a chain of events that were anything but helpful to another person. I could not seem to do anything to get over the deep regret and unhappiness I felt. It colored all of my days.

Repent. Well, it is not a word heard a lot today in many circles. Instead, we are definitely told about God’s love and his forgiveness, true, of course. But, there is something to be said about actually confessing that indeed we have done whatever. Often I would sort of confess in my prayers, saying I was sorry, but still often with a feeling that under the circumstances, who could blame me? Who wouldn’t have acted in the same way? It wasn’t until down on my knees one night I actually confessed not only what I had done, but the not-so-nice reasons why I had done it. I can’t explain it any clearer than to say a huge weight seemed to just fall off my shoulders. I was free.

What I learned that night was that while confession is important, whether our tradition is to confess to a clergy person or to confess in our personal prayers or both, the key seems to be looking deep within ourselves to see the reason for our action, to admitting perhaps our jealousy or greed or need for approval or whatever it may be. The action is perhaps sometimes less what we need to confess than to recognize we need to admit the why of what we did or did not do whatever.

Repent. It is safe to do; God does not expect us to be perfect. He does love us, no matter what. He will continue to work with us to bring us to being ever more like Christ, but we need to be honest with him about not only what we did but our motivation for so doing. We are only admitting what God already knows anyway so why should we fear exposing o

again of that old man on the London street. (Sometimes it still can take me a time to remember this, I must be honest to add.)

Yes, I don’t know myself about the “end is at hand” portion of his sign, but the repent part is what I recall. A few years ago I spent many weeks feeling miserable about something that I had said, which then caused a chain of events that were anything but helpful to another person. I could not seem to do anything to get over the deep regret and unhappiness I felt. It colored all of my days.

Repent. Well, it is not a word heard a lot today in many circles. Instead, we are definitely told about God’s love and his forgiveness, true, of course. But, there is something to be said about actually confessing that indeed we have done whatever. Often I would sort of confess in my prayers, saying I was sorry, but still often with a feeling that under the circumstances, who could blame me? Who wouldn’t have acted in the same way? It wasn’t until down on my knees one night I actually confessed not only what I had done, but the not-so-nice reasons why I had done it. I can’t explain it any clearer than to say a huge weight seemed to just fall off my shoulders. I was free.

What I learned that night was that while confession is important, whether our tradition is to confess to a clergy person or to confess in our personal prayers or both, the key seems to be looking deep within ourselves to see the reason for our action, to admitting perhaps our jealousy or greed or need for approval or whatever it may be. The action is perhaps sometimes less what we need to confess than to recognize we need to admit the why of what we did or did not do whatever.

Repent. It is safe to do; God does not expect us to be perfect. He does love us, no matter what. He will continue to work with us to bring us to being ever more like Christ, but we need to be honest with him about not only what we did but our motivation for so doing. We are only admitting what God already knows anyway so why should we fear exposing o

But, there is something to be said about actually confessing that indeed we have done whatever. Often I would sort of confess in my prayers, saying I was sorry, but still often with a feeling that under the circumstances, who could blame me? Who wouldn’t have acted in the same way? It wasn’t until down on my knees one night I actually confessed not only what I had done, but the not-so-nice reasons why I had done it. I can’t explain it any clearer than to say a huge weight seemed to just fall off my shoulders. I was free.

What I learned that night was that while confession is important, whether our tradition is to confess to a clergy person or to confess in our personal prayers or both, the key seems to be looking deep within ourselves to see the reason for our action, to admitting perhaps our jealousy or greed or need for approval or whatever it may be. The action is perhaps sometimes less what we need to confess than to recognize we need to admit the why of what we did or did not do whatever.

Repent. It is safe to do; God does not expect us to be perfect. He does love us, no matter what. He will continue to work with us to bring us to being ever more like Christ, but we need to be honest with him about not only what we did but our motivation for so doing. We are only admitting what God already knows anyway so why should we fear exposing o

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