A day when silence speaks louder than fasting, when we fast not to punish the body, but to awaken the heart. It is called the Day of Atonement, yet hidden inside that word is at one ment, a longing to be made whole.
For 25 hours, Jewish families pause asking ancient questions that belong to every soul, where have I wounded? Where must I forgive? Where do I need to return? Memphis carries its own scars, old hurts that whisper through our neighborhoods, divisions that keep neighbor from neighbor. Yom Kippur invites all of us, whatever our faith, to name what is broken, to lay down our pride, to turn back toward love. The Hebrew word is to teshuvah, to return, return to God, return to one another, return to the best of who we are. Imagine our city if even for one day we all turned and found ourselves at one again.
On the Day of Atonement, may Memphis dare to return and may a deep, quiet peace settle over our streets, our homes, and every waiting heart. This is Dr. Scott Morris from Church Health.
Yom Kippur
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