"If You, Oh Hashem, would preserve and remember sin, O My Lord, how could anyone survive?"

These words are King David's in Psalms, words that most shuls recite every day at the conclusion of morning and afternoon Tefilos. In the past this space has expressed that the words---while being said widely around the Jewish world, are uttered too perfunctorily and without appropriate focus and concentration. Indeed, we do say them every day, after a final and speedy Aleinu, before scooting out to the shul parking lots and driving off to our daily realities.