A teacher met with a student to discuss her struggle with vulnerability. She described her struggle as being surrounded with a wall that she cannot break. The teacher, with divinely inspired wisdom, offered to walk the wall with her to find a gate.
It is the greatest secret in the world...we all have walls, built to protect us that in the end harm us. We build them to keep us safe but instead they insulate us from the very things we need to grow. We cannot find each other because our walls hide us...the real us!
And like that student we all need to find a gate.
But I wonder...who in your life offers to walk the wall with you. We all need wall-walkers. We all need people in our lives who will walk on the other side, talking and listening to us, while we search for gates to get out.
Gates! If only they were these large monsters of iron and steel. But, they hide, masquerading as brick and mortar. Hidden in shadows, they shift and flow, disappearing from one place only to appear somewhere else. So the search is not easy, and it takes wisdom, observation, and courage - which is why you cannot walk the wall alone.
So who is your wall-walker? And whose will you be?
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