Repentance is more-much more-than merely seeing that I am hungry and alone. It is embracing the reality of how deeply I deserve something far more terrible. Repentance ance is facing the reality of my condition in the light of the holiness of God and then crying out to Him for mercy, which He longs to give. When we are deeply humbled, broken, and then thrilled in the light of God's perfection and compassion, we are transformed.”