So inspired, this post is about the act of apologizing.
I did a quick search on how to apologize, and was going to reference some of that material here. There's so much information, though, that I thought I'd just link to the Google search results instead.
With regard to my own views on apology, I've posted in the past that I used to have a hard time with prayers of confession. I think that my ego and fear of being something less than what I thought I was used to get in the way of confessing my short-comings. As if, confessing something out loud would somehow make me more guilty than I already knew I was. Strange perhaps.
Ironically, I am a very apologetic person in other contexts.
- Admitting you've made a mistake announces it to everyone, including those people that wouldn't have otherwise known you'd made a mistake.
- Admitting you've made a mistake is simply a sign of weakness.
- Admitting you've made a mistake emphasizes the mistake and makes it worse than it really is.
- Admitting you've make a mistake is an overt act of asking for forgiveness, when you may not think you deserve it.
- Admitting you've made a mistake is unnecessary because everyone already knows you've made a mistake.
- Admitting you've made a mistake opens up the opportunity in conversation for someone else to criticize or scold you for something you already know you did wrong.
- Admitting you've made a mistake represents a deeper deficiency in your whole self.
- We are imperfect.
- God does forgive us.
- God knows when we make mistakes, even if no one else does.
- God loves us, unconditionally.
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