Forgiveness

If we have injured anyone, and they forgive us, it means that everything is all right again between us, and they treat us as though we had never injured them at all.  It is just the same when God forgives us.  The past is wiped away as though it had never been, and God and ourselves are together once more as though we had never sinned against him.

But before that can happen, we have to do three things: we have to be sorry, we have to say we are sorry, and we have to show we are sorry by making up our minds to turn over a new leaf.