Rethinking Repentance

Like most religous words, "repentance", often needs  reinterpretation.  It is not that the word and action have changed.  It is more that our understandings need retuning from time to time.   This week I began to consider a little different way to think about the action and necessity of repentance to add along side some of these understancing.

Repentance is:
                        Turning around, changing directions.
                        Turning "God-ward."
                        An appraisal of my life, actions and behavior.
                        Being changed for the better.

This week I have been thinking about repentance as realignment.  As my car need realignment from time to time, so my life needs realignment with God's will.

We practice the alignment of repentance when we ask ourselves, "At what times today did I fall short of  faithful service to Christ?  When were those times I failed to act as God depended upon me to act?"

The journey of  faith is a day by day practice of realignment.