Cornerstone Community Church, San Jose Ca

Of all the words that are hard to say, these are probably the hardest: “I’m sorry.” Three simple words. Doesn’t take long to say them. Not hard to pronounce. But, oh, so very, very hard to say. For most of us our first experience with giving an apology was probably when we were kids and our mom or dad made us apologize. Maybe we broke a neighbor’s window, or we ran over their flowers with our bike. And when our parents found out what we had done, they made it very clear what we were supposed to do – we needed to march right over there (walking not being an option, apparently) and tell Mrs. Olson that we were sorry we had wrecked her petunia garden. It was the last thing in the world we wanted to do. There had to be some other way, we argued. She probably wouldn’t even notice that her flowers had been run over. Or she probably thought some dog had done it – dogs mess up flower beds, you know. But mom and dad would have none of it. S