Barriers

    I have been thinking about barriers today,  It started when Michelle, the beautiful little girl in the picture finally figured out how to open doors.  She has been fumbling with the handles and even started knocking for entrance but today she got it. Why this concerns me is all my worldly goods here in Africa are stored on the bottom bunk in a room with no lock.  This means my computer, contacts, lotions are now available to those sticky fingers of an interested eighteen month old
      Barriers are great for many things.  A bandage keeps germs out of a wound, Screens keep mosquitoes out of the house, gates keep robbers away and a club can keep a thief from stealing your car.     I then started thinking about barriers which are not so good. Barriers  we put up to keep people away from us or from getting too close.  Maybe we have prejudices or attitudes that keep us separate or walled off from other people and then there is unforgivness which not only  separates  us from others but from God as well. Eph 4:32 says And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another even as God in Christ forgave you .
     So my Dear Michelle, climb up on my bunk and we will sing and I will show you pictures of my grandchildren.  I do not want to ever be separated from you .  "Just be careful little hands what you touch,"

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