Jeremiah 48:28 · World English Bible
Jeremiah 48:28 Meaning You Inhabitants of Moab
You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock. Be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.
What does Jeremiah 48:28 mean?
There comes a time when the crowded life of the town no longer holds a person. The shared opinions, the comfort of doing what everyone does, stop feeding the soul.
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There comes a time when the crowded life of the town no longer holds a person. The shared opinions, the comfort of doing what everyone does, stop feeding the soul. So one withdraws to the bare rock, a quieter and lonelier place, and begins to build a life closer to the deep.
The dove does not flee the abyss. She nests at its very edge, over the dark opening where the unknown begins. This is what growing up asks of us: not to run from the depths inside, but to make a home beside them, so the hidden parts of the self become neighbors instead of enemies.
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Live Jeremiah 48:28 today
- Take twenty minutes today with no input at all, no podcast, no feed, no music. Let whatever has been waiting under the noise come up, and stay with it rather than reaching for the phone.
- In your busiest group chat, let a thread pass without adding your take. See what it is like to hold your own view without needing the group to agree with it.
- When something uncomfortable surfaces in you during a meeting or a drive, envy, fear, old anger, do not shove it down or act on it. Stay near it quietly for a minute and let it be part of you rather than an intruder.
What part of yourself have you been keeping at a distance that might make a better neighbor than an enemy?
The same truth in other traditions
Taoism · Zhuangzi
He turned down the offer to govern a kingdom and chose to drag his tail in the mud instead. The crowded honor of the court was the smaller life.
Buddhism · the forest tradition
Monks leave the village for the forest not because the village is wicked, but because the mind only hears itself when the noise of common opinion dies down.
Sufism · Rumi
Do not turn away from the place in you that is raw. Keep looking at the bandaged spot, since that is where the light enters.
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