Think About It

          Over the last several months there has been a lot of talk about building a barrier between nations to keep people safe.  Now, before you turn me off, please understand that what follows is not intended to be a political statement, rather the goal is to make a spiritual point.  You see, walls have separated people ever since people realized they were different than their neighbors.  Whether it was a fence around a piece of property, a wall around a city or a physical barrier between nations, we have been trying to keep people away from our lives and out of our business for a long time.  Interestingly, barriers have not always been “physical”, there have even been times when people segregated themselves from one another based upon race, philosophy or religion.            Through the years humans have done what we can to erect barriers between people, but interestingly something happened several centuries ago that made co-exiting possible.  When the New Testament teaches us a