Repentance is too busy redeeming the present to apologize for the past. Repentance spends less time hating the bad than loving the good. Repentance is a matter of being grasped by God, of being picked up and put down again so that everything looks different, so that you lose your old bearings and are offered new ones instead. That, I believe, is God's part in the process. This thing called Repentance is not something that happens only once.
Life is full of such turning points, both large and small.
When this WORD of God comes to us in our own wilderness it is an exciting, disorienting, liberating, and frightening moment. But when the storm is over, the fever has passed, the baby has been toilet trained, the war is over, it is easy to forget how different everything looked for a while. The Lord will not let us go. So prepare a way for him, make straight a path. Clean the house of your heart, sweep away the front steps of your soul, understanding that it is the spirit of the Almighty working in you and in all of us, making all things new, preparing in each of us a home he can call his own.