A Short Poetic Reflection on Repentance and Temporality

To live purely in the future is to occupy imagined realities — immaterial and unrealized

For harder is it to dwell within the present, conforming it to the future to which one is called

Repentance, as such, is a process of turning away from upheld past and ideated future, so that the self can transcend temporality and embrace the identity, trajectory, and will of the all-loving God

And the surrounding penance manifests as an active instant not reliant on future prospects: It is a radical act of transformation and rightness with God

With His patient grace, present moments of humble obedience come to shape sublime futures, carving blessings and virtues out of a grasping heart that was once stone.