In the days to come …
Torah shall go forth from Zion, the word of the One Who Is from Jerusalem …
You will beat your swords into plowshares and your spears into pruning knives.
Nation will not lift up sword against nation; nor will you study war any more.Rather you will sit under your vine and your fig tree, and be unafraid.
For it is I, the One Who Is, who speaks.
Though you will walk your own path, you will still walk to Me, the One Who Is throughout time and eternity.——- Micah 4:1-5
Even if you are not yet awake, know that awakening awaits you. This hope is the promise God makes to you personally. It is rooted in the fact of your unity with God. It is not that someday you will be different than you are now. It is that someday — this day — you will discover who you really are and have been since the beginning.
Zion is both the land of Israel and the land beneath your feet when you are awake to the fact that the whole earth is filled with God. Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, and also Yiru Shalem, the City of Peace and Wholeness that reveals itself to you when you are whole and at peace. Torah is the teaching that flows from being aligned with the holiness of place and the wholeness of heart.
War doesn’t come naturally to people; it must be taught and learned. When the learning ceases, when we are no longer taught to hate the stranger, the natural compassion of human for human arises spontaneously.
Fear is the killer, and fearlessness the mark of the awake and aware human being.
The unity of humankind envisioned by the prophets is a unity through diversity. Your uniqueness will be valued as the means by which God explores the endless facets of embodied existence.
