An effective apology contains within it the answer to the question, "How am I to be held accountable?"

Apology may be scorned, but it retains its inherent value.

When I accept an apology it means that the part in me that honors our relationship honors the part in you that honors our relationship.

Progress occurs one apology at a time.

Accepting the apology signals the acknowledgment of a need to move forward, but not necessarily together.

Apology may start as a feeling, a desire to make matters right, but it requires a commitment to move that desire into practice, to actually take on the great courageous task of showing compassion to others.

Apology is the practice of extending ourselves because we value the relationship more than we value the need to be right.