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I just got off the treadmill after watching an episode of “This is Us”. Looks like a good show, well except for the “butt” in the very first scene. Don’t need to see that. Soooooo…… after I went upstairs to eat my breakfast a thought came to me “Love means never having to say you’re sorry” (must have been because Mandy Moore looks a lot like Ali MacGraw). Does love mean never having to say you’re sorry? Does it really? I don’t think so.
Love Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
When you love someone and you’ve hurt them, either intentionally or unintentionally, a sorry heals a part of them that was wounded. And the relationship that you both share is wounded. Logically why wouldn’t you apologize? For the LOVE, why wouldn’t you apologize? Yes, yes it’s hard to do, and sometimes (sometimes) the person may have over reacted. And sometime you may be the one who needs the apology. That is for you to work out within your relationships.
If you love someone, you say you’re sorry. Period.
Let’s look at it from a faith stand point also. What is repentance? One definition is “to feel regret or contrition”. When we sin, and repent, what are we doing? We are saying we are sorry for what we’ve done. A definition of sorry is “feeling sorrow, REGRET, penitence”. If you love God, you apologize, you repent, you turn from that action, you heal your relationship. If you don’t love God, well OK, don’t be sorry. What’s the point. But if you do and you treasure that relationship, you say “I’m so sorry. I want to make things right between us again. I don’t want anything to come between our relationship again!”
So goes the same in our human relationships, whether Husband, Children, Siblings, Co-workers, Church Family, etc…… If you value that relationship and want nothing to hinder it APOLOGIZE!!!! If you don’t care…….don’t. It’s really that simple.
So does love mean “never having to say you’re sorry”? Not so much…… Continue reading