Days of Preparation

Time for personal reflection, a time to put things in order
Elul, (August) is to be spent in special preparation for the all important seventh month, called Tishri. If you count the days from the beginning of Elul until the final day of this festival, they will number forty, called the Forty Days of Preparation. It begins on the morning after the appearance of the new moon in the sixth month, Elul, and ends with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
Ten days of repentance, becoming oneness with G-d of bending your heart to Him, to do His Will.
High Holy Days are prophetic: Rosh Hashanah portrays that future time when the heavenly shofar will sound to rise the dead and set the judgment into motion. The seven intervening days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur may represent the seven years of the tribulation.
Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement) speaks of the coming of the Messiah at Armageddon to offer the great sacrifice. On that day the blood will flow to the horses’ bridles.
So Tell G-d all that is in your heart, as one unlocks one’s heart, its pleasures and its pains, talking to a dear friend.
Tell Him your troubles that He may comfort you.
Tell Him your joys that He may enjoy them.
Tell Him your longings that He may purify them.
Tell Him your dislikes that He may help you to conquer them.
Talk to Him of your temptations that He may shield you from them.
Show Him the wounds of your heart that He may heal them.
Lay bare your indifference to good, your depraved tastes for evil, and your instability.
Tell Him how self-love makes you unjust to others.
How vanity tempts you to be insincere.
How pride disguises you to yourself as to others.
If you thus poured out all your weaknesses, needs; troubles, there will be no lack of what to say.

This is truly a time for personal reflection, a time to put things in order
Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with the Father!