We’re told that any journeying to God(dess) or God’s journeying toward us is just a metaphor since there’s no true distance between us and that Holy One that transcends any religion. But I think both are helpful parables as they describe how we often feel and other truths of the process toward wholeness and peace. Indeed, it seems to us that we have to work at finding peace within, even though it’s already there at the root of our consciousness. And it also feels like we must often wait for God to act, for that descending holy city to get mysteriously closer before a new stage of compassionate awareness and flow reaches us (or perhaps we’re not sure what will come!). However, we’re told that sometimes the most effective way of journeying to God is to journey within into a state of sabbath or rest (whatever we may be doing). This means resting in the peaceful, spacious consciousness that we use to observe our mind’s chatter and all the things that we perceive through it, letting go of identifying with our lusts, attachments, perceptions of our bodies, or random thoughts. Interestingly, our favorite mystic, Emanuel Swedenborg, believed that the Palm Sunday image of the Lord riding on a donkey represented our natural mind subordinating itself to our spiritual awareness, similarly to this.