“Pray
for Jerusalem of peace, in abundance those who love you.” (Psalms 122:6)
We refer often to praying and praising, not as a passive
but a dynamic process by which we attune our consciousness with what we do.
We pray to evoke God as the ruler of the best in us, in
order to allow goodness to be with us, and provide us with what we need us and for
those who benefit from us. We certainly pray for goodness to be with us, not
with a selfish approach but to make us better to ourselves, and as a source of
goodness for others.
We praise, not to experience an emotional or passionate
feeling of closeness and attachment to God, but to evoke His ways and
attributes and emulate them in what we say and do.
We say “praise the Lord” as
the invocation of His loving kindness to awaken our goodness, and be able to
manifest it in what we are and do. In this sense praising is acknowledging,
thanking and recognizing God’s presence in us, and to express it in our moment to
moment engagement to life.
In this verse the Psalmist invites us to evoke the
peace of Jerusalem as what makes it complete, wholesome, total, eternal and
undivided. As we have said, peace in Hebrew means all these words, for this
wholesomeness is the culmination of unifying our consciousness through
goodness.
Loving the peace of Jerusalem is living in goodness as
the abundance that makes us constantly fulfilled in plenitude. Thus we realize
again that love and goodness belong to each other as the source of what we
truly are, our essence and identity.
“Peace
is in your bulwark, abundance in your strongholds.” (122:7)
Bulwarks and strongholds share the same qualities,
whose function is to protect something. Peace encompasses these qualities as
our strongholds, for these are our strength as well as the bulwarks that shield
us against anything opposite to goodness, hence abundance is the outcome.
Once we achieve the committed and diligent process of
unifying the diverse traits, trends, dimensions and aspects of our
consciousness, the end result is peace as the functional harmonized unity
that Jerusalem represents.
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