As a Christian, I believe that all of us must look at our past mistakes and repent our sins. After all, that was the model that Christ betowed on us all. Yet what sin was he exactly talking about? Some might think it was youthful indescresions or maybe just bad behavior. It could be things like smoking dope or something far worst like beating your wife or murdering your children. Yet, I find it hard for those to be the kind of sins Christ would have been concerned with as such bad things are not what normal people have to deal with day to day.

Instead, I think the bible is quite clear in what the biggest sin is in gensis. It's not only picking from the tree of good and evil, but also not eating from the rest of the fruit in the garden. In other words, sin is concerned not as much with doing bad things, but the failure to do good things, to develop yourself into a better individual. Sin ultimately is about the failure to develop your flowers to be something more then what somebody would invest in.

There is hope for all us. We can become better individuals. We can challenge ourselves to do better to do god's work on earth in our own little ways. Whether it's politics or raising a family in our own mold as individuals, we can do much to change our world.