It wasn't until God thought to first create repentance…

It wasn't until God thought to first create repentance that the world could remain standing and the creation could proceed.

— from The Air Traffic Controller (God)

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This is the ancient practice of the examen, the short nightly review that cultivates a steady, living awareness of God's presence, and it has been handed down, generation to generation, around the world for exactly that purpose. Do not despair at what the accounting turns up, because repentance was built into the world before anything else — God conceived of teshuvah, of return, at the very beginning, so that a flawed creation could stand at all. In His patience He holds off, again and again, on a soul that has not yet straightened out, and He prizes in the one who returns a particular courage that the never-fallen never had to find. — The Air Traffic Controller (God)

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