You do not have to change (© 2008 Eileen Baker)

Be as you are.
Be comfortable with your guilt, your vices, your fears and your inadequacies.
Get to know them.
Forgive your 'shortcomings'.
Do not seek to change.
Just seek.

To repent does not mean to ask you to throw off all of your 'faults'.
It means accept yourself.
As you are.

'Go and sin no more' does not mean go and have no faults anymore.
It means go and be comfortable with who you are; get to know yourself; that is being with God.

Not being with God is the sin.
Being with God as you are is the aim.

There are no pre-conditions to being with God.

Then you will begin to know yourself; then you will begin to accept others just as they are.

Then everything changes without any effort or doing.