Remorse

 Remorse is not a plan for change.  It is a feeling, maybe fueled by guilt or shame, but it is not a plan for change.  When I tell someone I am sorry for what I did, I have hopefully begun a process.  Now what is my plan to change me, so that I don’t continue to do the same old bad behavior?  I need a plan of action for change, and I need to know that a bad habit is not mine to change alone.  I need my God.  I have found that people are not so much interested in my apologies as in my change of life.  Action and more action is the courage to change.