I’m sorry.

I lost count of the number of mistakes I made in the past week or so, mostly in the “Oh no, I forgot…!” category.  (Did you miss our posting last Thursday, or wonder why there was one on Saturday?  Oops!  My mistake!)   Thank goodness for the phrase, “I’m sorry.” 

I used to be one of those people who apologized if you tripped on the sidewalk 10 feet away from me.  Although I’ve gotten less extreme in my expressions of remorse, I still find that owning up to my mistakes is a helpful, if sometimes difficult, practice.  If you want to learn what apologizing can do for you, or find the perfect way to ask forgiveness, you can read one of these titles:

• The Five Languages of Apology: How to Experience Healing in All Your Relationships, by Gary Chapman and Jennifer Thomas
• I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies, by Nick Smith
• On Apology, by Aaron Lazare
• The One Minute Apology: A Powerful Way to Make Things Better, by Ken Blanchard and Margret McBride
• The Power of Apology: Healing Steps to Transform All Your Relationships,
  by Beverly Engel

If you just want to hear someone sing ‘I’m sorry’ to you, you can listen to:

• I’m Sorry, by Brenda Lee
• Apology, by the Posies
• I’ll Say I’m Sorry Now, by Shawn Colvin
• It’s Hard to Say I’m Sorry, by Chicago
• Sorry, by the Jonas Brothers
• Contessa, Perdono, in Act 4 of The Marriage of Figaro, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

-Kaarin