Healing Well of Miriam

During the time I was living in Israel, the “peace process” had brought us anything but “peace.”  We gave them land, but they never honored their commitment to their agreed renouncement of terror.  There were bus bombings, drive-by shootings, stabbings, bombings of cafes…every type of terror, of the war they had promised was in the past.  It was painfully clear that their hatred of us was more powerful than their aspirations for peaceful co-existence alongside Israel.

While living in a community over Yericho, I would go to the mountain ridge, where I could see the Palestinian Police headquarters and the casino they had built.  I asked Heaven: “What is so broken and injured in their souls that they hate us so much?  And what is so damaged in us that we merit this axe in Your Hand?”  I later travelled to India, with those questions persistently echoing in my heart.    

Some years afterward I wrote a novel based on this spiritual journey that started with these questions, and then opened into a deeper search for what it means to be a part of the repair of the world.  I was never really satisfied with the ending, so I started re-working the book.  I was working on this project when the attack of October 7 occurred.  As I watched the news from Israel over the subsequent days, I saw the ever-current relevance in the struggles of the novel’s protagonist.   

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