If Those Walls Could Talk

 

Executive sessions regarding personnel, back rooms where politician’s deals are made, the “talk” between the salesman and the manager at the auto dealership—all of those are times when we wonder—“it those walls could talk”, what would they say? Each is a place we are not privy to, yet because we believe the discussions may have some impact on us, we’d like to know what went on there. “If those walls could talk” runs through our minds.

Doesn’t same thing happen with friends, wives, our kids are involved. We know they have put up walls. Our gut is screaming at us that something is going on that is uncomfortable for them. We ask if there is something happening that we should know, or what’s bothering them, and we get something that should have a copyright on it—“oh, I’m fine.” They’re masking. They’ve thrown up walls, walls which are sometimes quite hard to penetrate.

Those folks aren’t the Lone Ranger. Us guys are pretty darn good at building the same kind of walls aren’t we? We’re real good at it when it comes to emotions that show the soft side of us. We don’t build walls around our explosive anger though, do we? We save the walls for those things (emotions, feelings, thoughts) that really matter to the ones around us.

Were it not for some Godly men who wondered what my walls would say if they could talk, I wouldn’t be where I’m at in my spiritual journey today. God used those men to tear those walls apart. You see, God doesn’t care about our walls because they don’t stop Him. He knows what they would say anyway, and He knows, in His wisdom, that our walls prevent us from being all we can be. As long as we have those walls we will never be free, nor will we ever be the men God would love us to be.

We can all be men who, through love, patience, and understanding, can help other guys tear those walls within them down. So we should never wonder what Fred’s walls would say if they could talk. If we’re Godly men, we’ll help him get rid of those walls.

Bottom Line Thought: What kind of walls have you thrown up? What would they say? Are you open to the opportunity to help another man take his walls down?