It is a willingness to let things go, to let the future happen, to keep responding to God's abiding faithfulness to us. This means, of course, that conversion is closely linked to faith. It helps us carry out the decision we spoke of before, to follow Christ in the spirit of the Gospel, living our baptism. But that is only one aspect of faith. In the Biblical sense, faith is really a surrender of ourselves to a person, the person of Christ, who shows us the Father.
Faith is a relationship.
By choosing to be an oblate, you are choosing a certain set of values which put a priority in your life on deepening this relationship with your God, developing a more personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Think of the famous scriptural parable of the Prodigal Son. The Father was out daily, waiting, longing, looking for this beloved son to return to his home. Finally, the son came to his senses and set out on this homeward journey. It was not that he needed to ask forgiveness, he was already forgiven, always forgiven.