NO Walls

No Walls    - April 20, 2009

At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to
bottom.  Matthew 27:51

Each year, at holidays, seems like the same thing comes up time and
again with one of our relatives.  

No matter how hard I try, sharing, honest intimacy, and vulnerability
seem impossible.

This past holiday season it dawned on me that if my life were a circle,
this person would be a dot on it.  

Perhaps there would be a thick concrete wall between me and the dot, but
she was just one person.  

All the rest of the people in my life would be represented by the
infinite number of dots that make up  

the entire remaining circumference of the circle. And there would be no
walls between me and all of  

those dots.

This was a very cool revelation. So, there’s a wall at one tiny
intersection.  Deal with it, “take the best and leave the rest“.

I was thinking about this and found myself humming, “and the walls came
tumbling down.”  An old  

gospel song about when the walls came down at Jericho.

I thought about the great city of Berlin, Germany.  Berlin had a wall
dividing the east and west sectors  

of the city after the war.  Not too many years ago that wall was torn
down. Now the city is a thriving  

place again, enjoying its unification.

When Christ was crucified, He died as a ransom for our lives; He was the
living sacrifice. As He atoned  

for our sin(s), the wall came down between us and God.

No walls!  Thank you, Lord.