Like a lot of men, he believed that a bunch of petals and stems could have extraordinary powers. Until it becomes as predictable as the sin itself. My advice is not to believe any man who can only say it with flowers. No matter how beautiful the arrangement, how expensive the bouquet, there are some guys whose offerings are more manipulative than meaningful, some men whose generosity has suspicious roots. Why waste your time - those relationships are better off simply pushing up daisies.
Real penance has a place.
A. Words alone are cheap. Profound tears of evangelist Jimmy Swaggart. But he kept going back to same thing. We made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.