Our world contains a wealth of walls:
walls to protect
and walls to limit
to imprison
to prevent.
And there are also other kinds of walls:
thick walls of fear
high walls of intellectualism
(almost too high to hurdle)
and walls for selfishness
to hoard behind.
History is full of walls.
The faithful Nehemiah saw
the broken wall of loved Jerusalem
and could not rest until it was restored.
No argument, however subtle,
could persuade him to come down
from his great work. He built
a wall against the worldly
to protect his spiritual ideal.
