When I can confess my peculiarity, my brokenness to someone who does not shame me, who will stand as a representative of the community and as a witness before God, then my healing can begin. When I take off the mask and - together with at least one other person - clearly at my vulnerability, then my recovery an restoration has begun. This, of course, is not easy; it is much easier to continue to hide. Repentance is a risk. It can be a painful process, much like bearing a child. In this process the will is not mortified. Rather, it is "buried alive" in a tomb that becomes the womb for new life.
Archdeacon John Chryssavgis, from Soul Mending, Chapter 1, Repentance as Resurrection
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