A Vision across Boundaries

As we begin a new year, the phrase, "a vision across boundaries" continues to stretch my mind and heart. I first heard it several years ago during a graduate course. Our teacher noted that skin, something that seems like a definite boundary, is continually exchanging elements from within and without -- moisture, sun, air, and so on -- since all is interconnected and interdependent.

At this time of New Year's resolutions, it seems like an excellent chance to reflect on one's vision. Is it a vision across boundaries? Is my/our vision helping birth a vision across boundaries of:

• Feelings of superiority and inferiority
• Fears, painful memories, hurts, and insecurities
• Prejudices and biases that blind
• Cultures and traditions
• Spiritual and theological differences
• Language and identification (i.e.: we/they, conservative/liberal, rich/poor)
• Continents, nations, and regions
• Race, religion, class
• (Maybe you can think of other boundaries?)

As this new year begins, we could resolve to develop or strengthen, personally and communally, "a vision across boundaries" -- since all is interconnected and interdependent in our beautiful, God-is-with-us world.

Acknowledgements
Gratitude to Free to Disagree for permission to use a picture of a billboard
created by them for WNPJ (Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice).
"A Vision across Boundaries:" Mary Pat Hill, OSM.