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Can their be apology without forgiving? without forgiveness?

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For all the words I cannot unsay,
things left undone and now too late,
I have only this inadequate "sorry".

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Can words come from the heart?
Can I look you in the eye?
Do you truly see me?
HilaryC

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The words I cannot get out
Are trapped in pain and betrayal.
Who should apologize? I dither and doubt.

dm

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There are days when I still brood over that life-imploding ignorance

And I refuse to accept my own apology

Because I question its sincerity

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To make any meeting shorter, make it about apologies we have made

If it still feels too long, make it about apologies we owe

BWH

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10,000 apologies I'll never get, for invisible things. Unseen as the dots on a  failed colorblindness test.

Atypical. Not ill. No one's fault. But the damage is like a ruined city.

One I can't go back to.

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to see the heavy pack they now have to carry.

to offer, hands outstretched, to bear the weight.

to slide your arms through the straps, head down. taking the weight on your own back, you walk.

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What is it that makes the shame-bound /
apologize for what isn't even our fault? /
And Who will break our chains?

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Remorse
Regretting
Agonising
Lamenting
Repenting
Confessing
APOLOGY
Forgiveness
Being forgiven
Being absolved
Accepting forgiveness
Forgiving oneself
And perfect peace.

Too often the list is incomplete.

We wonder why...

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Love: "Never having
To say you're sorry?" Gosh no!
"Always getting to!"

WDRplus

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“I’m sorry” – no “if” “and” or            “but”

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“I’m sorry” – no “if” “and” or            “but”

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Why is it so hard to apologize?
Why is it so necessary?
The answer is the same for both - we are human.

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Sorry. So sorry.
I’m sorry. So very...
Must do. Can do. Will do better.

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An apology is a lost art. We offer excuses, justifications, explanations, but not apologies.

Why aren’t we allowed to be wrong? And learn? And repent? And change?

I’m sorry. I was wrong. I apologize.

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An apology is an acknowledgement of the reality of pain - mine, or someone else’s. It is a grieving.

Any encounter with reality is an encounter with truth is an encounter with God.