Allow me to exemplify upon this most precious wonderful gift of when we readily accept God as our Lord and Saviour.  It is then, we are a forever changed people. We never want to stop growing in his presence.  Why is that you may ask, well, I believe it is because, when we accept Him, we invite Him into the interior cell of our being. We are much more aware of our accountability, and we become more vulnerable in Him,  and when He enters into our mind and tenderizes our heart, we begin to think like him,  we begin to love like him, and eventually act like him.  For he truly is all loving and worthy of  becoming acquainted with.  I have tried with all my might to live a life of holiness and know full well, the joy of experiencing his grace, I am much more aware of the importance of  having his  grace when interacting with others.  Growing in his love has made me realize the kind of love I was missing.  His gentleness has taught me to be gentle.  That  began to make a big difference in my life.  There is less suffering in our selves and in the lives we share, when we live a life of true repentance. We should as a general rule, have a daily examination of conscience.  This will realign us totally, with being more accountable of our mistakes and errors.  When I go to confession, I deliberately try very hard not to commit the same mistakes over and over.  I strive for spiritual excellence.  I strive to be the best daughter I can in God.  When I fail in my nature to be responsible, I can see how ugly sin is.  Sin leaves a blemish on a soul.  Sin can greatly cost us a life of eternity.  Don't get caught up in this useless choice, you will suffer dearly from the consequences of them. When we live a life of holiness though, we don't desire to cling to the things of this world.  Worldly pleasures no longer have the value we once placed on them.  Thank goodness for that!  When we live in sin, we become hardened, we don't see ourselves as we truly are, and we hurt everyone in our path, because we have developed within us a nature that is unpleasing to God.  We have a choice to do one or two things, we can either look in the mirror and accept  the person we have become or we can roll up our sleeves and get to work in correcting the flaws that we saw from those closest to us and choose to no longer carry them with us like some old useless backpack.  Which does nothing but bring us  and everyone we love down with us.