40 Days of Repentance

The LIST can be likened to attending a familiar and well-loved church for a long time, only to discover a staircase leading down to a previously unknown basement. As I walk down the stairs I am engulfed in darkness. What should I do? I could just go back upstairs and “ignore” the basement. Instead, I look for and find the light switch (that is, I read The LIST).

With the basement now bathed in light, I realize that it is a chamber of horrors and torture that has been used against the Jewish people. In MY basement. Of MY church. It is now between me and the LORD to decide what I should do about this.

40 Days of Repentance: A Companion Guide to The LIST, breaks The LIST down into a 40 day devotional journey. Each day is a reflection on a particular event or theme that emerges from The LIST. That day’s meditation then closes with a prayer of repentance. This 40-day devotional can be used as a repentance prayer journey leading up to the 9th of Av or Yom Kippur, and is intended as a Companion Guide to “The LIST.” It can also be read as a stand alone.