With Easter and Passover upon us I thought a look at the future, in the most turbulent place on the planet, would be appropriate. There is no greater ego clash than this holy city of diversity. Where Source has planted the seeds of faith the trees have grown in restless confusion. It could be that this one element of human disaster is the stimulus for our entering a state of understanding and the catalyst for our genetic mutation. How do we reconcile our differences and move ahead in Peace?
Doesn’t Jerusalem mean the ‘place of peace’ or something?”
It means many things to many people. You’re close. Shalom means ‘peace’, of course. But that is not the root word for the name of the city. The Hebrew word, Shalem, means ‘wholeness’; Jeru, means ‘legacy’. In the last 500 years Jerusalem has come to be called ‘the city of wholeness’. But it is also appropriate to think about peace here. Jerusalem has become a place of profound peace today, after thousands of years of war.
