Faith, Failure, and Frustration

THE GRAVITY of the offense is measured according to the dignity of the one offended. So said an old philosopher. Guilt is sometimes defined as remorse felt over one's commission of a real or imagined offense. Sometimes, I define guilt as the result of wishing that some action hadn't been performed or that some event hadn't taken place or that one hadn't been caught. When we try to wish away something that just won't go away, we feel all-consuming remorse and grief, which seems to have no end and contains no solution for the problem.