Faith Venture

My wife and I just finished a six-episode English crime drama. The story can be told in summary like this:

• People (many) take unwise actions
• Everyone had guilt
• Many were so, so sorry
• Except maybe not everyone was really that sorry
• Many were liars
• At the end the star witness said he had lied, except he always lied throughout the show, was he lying when he said he lied?
• Action, guilt, sorry, rinse and repeat

Life confronts us like this. 

Either we do something foolish or even criminal. We are hit by guilt. We think we can remedy the situation by expressing how we are so, so, sorry.

Except that words often seem short of sincerity. As if they are patching over the flaws. (Sine Cera—Latin, without wax, eg statue without wax covering over flaws in workmanship.)

Someone lies to us. Now, the conundrum. Do we ever trust that that person is not lying when they say something? Maybe. Maybe, not.

Saying I’m so, so, sorry really just begins the journey. It now takes time and actions to establish trust in the truth of those words.

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