This day forever changed the world in which we live. For me,
it inspired a walk, a journey as much inner as it was outer, to Jerusalem. On
that day, I was filled with trepidation and fear. They walked alongside me,
often taunting the futility of doing such a walk, or ridiculing the idea of working
on the inner planes to create peace. But alongside me also walked Love,
revealing itself in the many acts of kindness and solidarity, in the many
moments of the magical and miraculous. And in the silence, Love also whispered:
Believe. Trust. In yourself and others. Make every step your prayer for peace, every
breath your inspiration for new thought. You never walk alone.
I came across an article today called Gandhi’s Prayer
(for Syria), which began: “Gandhi was once given a seemingly impossible
scenario: what would he do if a plane were flying over his ashram to bomb him?
He rose to the challenge with an equally challenging answer: he would pray for
the pilot.” The author goes on to articulate how Gandhi’s call to prayer was
consistent with his vision of non-violent strategy. The full article is here: http://mettacenter.org/blog/gandhis-prayer/.
No matter how we pray, no matter how we choose to walk
the inner planes towards peace, love, compassion (yes, even for those we judge
as being vile and unworthy of it), it is by doing so that we write the story of
the world in which we choose to live.
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