Walls Around Hearts, Waiting to Be Torn Down

It's been 25 years. 1 death zone. Divided people. Misery for the better part of 28 years. The 2 concrete barriers, dividing sides, with the infinity of an 8 turned upwards toward one sky; imploring faith to step in and end the divide. It kept people away from their brethren and kin, entrenched in a place without many choices, on both sides of the walls. The walls kept hearts apart, with the empty zone between; leaving a rent in the fabric of one people. And so it was, for 28 years, until one person misspoke and spoke; stating everyone could pass through the wall. Just after that statement, many did. It took just one sentence to end the divide in a moment of confusion; becoming a new clarity of reunion. And the walls came down. In chunks, slices, fragments, blocks; falling away from the hearts of so many people. Spaciousness entered and expanded. It is expanding STILL.  

To find that clarity of expansion is to feel the beat of our hearts in movement and to know the barriers we create around its chambers. It is to sense the rhythmic surge of our own life force and to spend moments feeling the blocks we hold within each of our hearts. To let the blocks loosen into the pulsing rhythm so they can support that rhythm to its fullest potential is every person's task. Take a moment to feel the clarity of your heartbeat. Take another moment to sense a block of your own prejudice. Let the beat carry the block within and feel the newness of that relationship. This new sense of moving is the foundation of compassion. This new feel of support is the rhythm of PEACE.

Celebrating the way barriers, break apart to open hearts to new ways of being. An iconic fragment of the Berlin Wall in Simi Valley, CA-outside the Reagan Library. The butterfly soars towards the above of sky.  Take a moment to break down your walls, open your heart, and BREATHE.

See the speech writer's intention, developed at: http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2007/summer/berlin.html