Imagine yourself as a jar of water, clear and untouched.Beside you are two bottles of food coloring. One is red, representing sin.The other is yellow, representing redemption. With each act made by you, a drop of food coloring dilutes into your no longer untouched and clear body. One by one a drop a drop is added. Now take a pause and look at yourself. What color are you, red, yellow, or orange? If orange, are you a darker orange or a lighter one? The more sin you have in your life the redder or darker your body will be. The more redemption you have the more yellow or light your body will be.

Now i’ll be honest, my body is a much darker orange. As much as i’d like to take back my sins, I cannot for they are mixed within in. The red is there to stay, but so is the yellow. I cannot separate the darkness, but I can lighten it. My goal is to essentially make up for my sins by overcoming them with redemption. With each redemption my body becomes a lighter orange. My sins never leave me, but the power that comes from redeeming, lessen the harshness of its color.

Relating this experiment to Hamlet I look to the King’s prayer to God as an example. The King, Claudius, turns to God to repent his sins in hopes to be freed of them. This is still a common act to those who worship and believe in God and is act that I respect and contribute in. However, the way Claudius repents his sins is completely ineffective especially to the project spoken above. Claudius believes that by just asking forgiveness from God, he is free of his sins. Unfortunately it is not that simple. In my religion it is encouraged to repent yours sins to God and that He shall forgive you. The catch is that yes He forgives, but that doesn’t mean that you can go back into life and repeat and make new sins. The whole point of repenting is to vulnerably put yourself before the Lord and ask Him for another chance to do right. Claudius’s sins are never gone even as much as he prays they are. They remain within him, and with his naive mind he goes back out into the world and sins more. This making his body even redder and his repentance to God worthless.

It is one thing to recognize and want to take back your sins. Its another to make up for them and exclude all those sins from your life. The red food coloring is a never leaving substance, but so is the yellow one. You get to chose the color you represent. Red, yellow, dark, or light?