Letting Go of Past Guilt and Shame

Do you carry guilt and shame over things that happened in the past? I did for some time, when my mother passed away in a nursing home in Germany and I could not visit her much living overseas. One of the chapters in my book launching tomorrow is "Letting Go of Past Guilt and Shame". In my situation, I can redeem myself by reaching out to lonely elderly people. Even if we cannot visit, we can always call, or write or send a gift. Reach out to somebody this week and turn such guilt and shame into a force for doing some good.