012 Fences and gates

It is a beautiful day here at Northwest Arkansas Airport. I'm Kim Gaskill, and this is the Daily Spark. I'm sitting here in my car in the parking lot, and all I see are fences. Fences around the taxiways and runways, fences around the parking lots, fences across the street in the pastures. Fences are designed to either keep things in or keep things out. All of the fences I see around the airport here, around the taxiways and runways, they're designed to keep people off of those areas and out of those areas for security reasons. The fences around the parking lots are designed to keep people out of the parking lot unless they pay. The fences across the street in the pastures are designed to keep the cows and their little ones in, to keep them contained. And I'm thinking to myself, what kind of fences am I putting up? What are those invisible fences that I'm putting up to keep things in or to keep things out? Sometimes we put up fences to keep things out, to protect ourselves from hurt or harm. Sometimes we put up fences around things to keep them in. We don't want to share. We don't want to let people in to know what's going on. And sometimes that's not healthy. Sometimes for communication and healing, we need to add a gate on one of these fences. We need to have that two-way communication, that two-way movement in and out of that fence, to maybe let things in or let things out once in a while to grow and to heal. So my question to you today is, what invisible fences are you putting up? Are you putting up fences to keep things out? Are you putting up fences to keep things in? And do you need to add a gate maybe on one of those fences to allow some two-way communication, two-way travel, two-way transfer for growth and healing? Think about that today and join me again tomorrow for another Daily Spark.