Saying sorry isn’t enough. True contrition can lead to genuine change in relationships, work, and personal growth

It’s traditional to head into a new year full of resolve fuelled by last year’s regret.

Our commitment to renewed discipline, diets and dream-achieving over the coming 12 months is all too often driven by short-term overindulgence during Christmas festivities.

More importantly, there’s a lingering sense of another year lost by not doing what we ought to have done and by doing what we ought not to have done, in the fine, ancient words of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.

As much as we are compelled to improve, many of us also feel that apology and forgiveness, to ourselves and others, are justified and beneficial. Unfortunately, we repeatedly forget that sorry is more than just a word. Contrition that’s........

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