In the days leading up to Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, it is traditional to greet people with the wish that they be written in the Book of Life for a good year, for at the end of Yom Kippur God closes the book, sealing it and one’s fate for the year to come. But being written in the Book of Life depends on one’s relationships here on earth—which is, after all, where our fate is sealed.
What will you do today to build a relationship which will bring more life to your year to come?
Although I do not believe that a report in a book by a god is being kept on my life, I will continue to respect others’ belief in this type of recording. I also know that the Islamic faith includes a strong belief in the recording of a person’s life of good and bad to be realized and judged on the day of judgment. I try to learn while I am here on earth how to do what I think is good and to learn from experience what is not good and to avoid doing it or learn from it.