{"id":1905,"date":"2018-10-15T21:46:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T18:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2019-05-07T21:14:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T18:14:46","slug":"something-there-is-that-does-not-love-a-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/2018\/10\/something-there-is-that-does-not-love-a-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Something there is that does not love a Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, October 15 ~ Wes Ebert<\/p>\n<p>In 1979 I lived in Germany for a year. One of the hardest things for me to get my head around was \u201cthe wall.\u201d It divided the country down the middle, having been built by an oppressive regime to exert control over its people. In the minds of my peers it had been there forever and everyone believed it would stand forever. But in reality it fell a mere decade later.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1369\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1369\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_6485-e1508357933353-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_6485-e1508357933353-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_6485-e1508357933353-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Separation Wall by Wi&#8217;am&#8217;s play yard<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Looking at the dividing wall through Bethlehem today I was having flashbacks.<br \/>\n\u25cf The graffiti was the same, complaining about the powers that had built it and belittling<br \/>\nthose who enabled the oppression.<br \/>\n\u25cf The guard towers looked frighteningly familiar<br \/>\n\u25cf And the fact that it was intended to divide a community and keep people apart was eerily similar.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1912\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1912\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1912\" src=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/10738564384-IMG-0248-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/10738564384-IMG-0248-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/10738564384-IMG-0248-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/10738564384-IMG-0248-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/10738564384-IMG-0248.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wall surrounding Rachel&#8217;s tomb<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I know the situation here is very different, but the fact that the seemingly permanent wall through Germany is merely a topic of history books today gives me hope, hope that a similar situation could occur here and the two opposing sides could come together in unity and peace.<\/p>\n<p>The more I look back at what I&#8217;ve just written, the more naive it looks, especially in light of all we&#8217;ve learned throughout the day. But I believe God is powerful enough to bring about transformation in unexpected ways. Such changes never come easily, but the harder we all work for the justice Christ taught us, the closer we can get to achieving that goal.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Blog title: ref. to Robert Frost&#8217;s &#8220;Mending Wall&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, October 15 ~ Wes Ebert In 1979 I lived in Germany for a year. One of the hardest things for me to get my head around was \u201cthe wall.\u201d It divided the country down the middle, having been built &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/2018\/10\/something-there-is-that-does-not-love-a-wall\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-october-pilgrimage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}