IT is perfectly true what Bill Craggs (HAS Apr 14) says: “If you have hurt someone, including if you have done so unintentionally, you need to apologise as a matter of urgency – both to God and to the one you have hurt.”
You also need to do your best, if at all practically possible, to make amends to them.
To be meaningful, in a Christian sense, an apology has to be totally sincere, come direct from the heart and be a genuine expression of remorse, selfapproach and repentance.
The worst case scenario is to have a sick conscience and no possible hope of apologising.
Oddly, there are those who hurt others cheerfully, who think nothing of walking over other people to get what they want, and never seem to experience a twinge of conscience. No doubt self-revelation will come their way one day, possibly when it’s too late.
Tony Kelly, Crook
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