Continuous repentance need not be a maudlin exercise of self-recrimination. We don’t need to return to a “woe is me” time when there was an overage of words designed to strip one’s sense of value in God’s eyes. Rather, we’re talking about a frank assessment of one’s shortfalls, an acknowledgment before God of their existence, and a serious intention to correct the wrongs. Face it; name it; renounce it; replace it.
