Repentance is a transitional state and a demanding one. For some, it means to upgrade thought, for others, to increase moral sensibility. For still others, repentance involves forsaking specific sins.
In Christian Science, much more is meant—more than just exchanging bad thinking and acting for better thought and action. Total rejection of matter as base or center and acceptance of God, divine Principle, as the only foundation of all that really is—these are important aspects of Christianly scientific repentance.
When an individual's mistaken sense of himself and of God is fading and a more spiritual, right sense is growing, the person may sometimes be reduced to tears. But this is a reason for rejoicing, because it signifies Christly action—the abandonment of old sins, sinful concepts of self, and the accompanying recognition of the man of God's creation.
