The word repentance has a definite
religious feel to it. Perhaps I have watched too many old movies, but I can’t
help but see in my mind’s eye a preacher exhorting their congregation to REPENT
or else. So, if we are Living on the
Spiritual Basis what does it mean to repent? First a definition:
Repent:
1. be sorry: to recognize the wrong in something you have done and be sorry
about it
2. religion change ways: to feel regret about a sin or past actions and change
your ways or habits (Encarta)
To feel sorry about something done or said is easy, but to change our ways or
habits is something else entirely. Living on the new basis, the basis of
trusting and relying on A Power Greater Than Ourselves requires action. A
simple acceptance of past mistakes with a mumbled “sorry” won’t fit the bill at
all. Living on the Spiritual Basis requires work on our part. One of the
traps those new to this path fall into in an attempt to change and become “rigorously
honest” is to recount stories of old hurts and mistakes, for no good reason, which only serves to invigorate
them, fill them with new life opening the door to morbid reflection. To be
clear: We do not shut the door on the past or deny it, but we do not under any
pretense engage in morbid reflection. To do so takes us out of the moment and
pulls us into remorse and negative self-reflection, placing us back in the
bondage of self. Our past is a great tool, often the best, for helping those
new to the process to progress but we must learn to use it as a positive lest
we drift into self-pity and pointless remorse, shutting ourselves off from the
sunlight of the Spirit. On our own we are powerless to effect any real lasting
change at our core, by relying on a Power Greater Than Ourselves real change is
affected, the past put in proper perspective, its power over us removed and it becomes
a tool to help others, in turn setting us free.
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