Saw this sign recently in Antwerp and thought about how to use bridges well-in ourselves, our cities and nations.
 All architecture is symbolic, and can be used for good or bad art and living.
  Historically, bridges are like gates—they can be places of blessing or places of curses, but, they also have this symbol of fluidity running beneath them (whatever happens on the bridge gets communicated outwards to the surrounding villages and towns through our rivers or words, and in our case, into entire other nations-ie what happens on our bridges, gets planted as seeds into the water and carried into the fields surrounding us); so that either way, they symbolize and carry out messages to others. Places of connection, much like blood in a human body, matter and reveal and determine the heart in many ways.
 The internet is also a type of bridge to be tended in Wisdom and with Love, as well as many other metaphors, but we still have to use it as loving kind humans. Bridges can be places we collectively block crossing to one another, or open up to allow welcomed conversational mutually healing entry-even express the pageantry of welcome to one another. It is good to see you again cousin etc…
 I love bridges as symbols and their potential for good in the human family. New mediums, but the same ethics apply to each medium. Let’s use this information bridge for good. Historically, people, cities and even nations, are judged on how we used our bridges and gates—who and how we let people in. Even in our own lives.
 May we use our bridges and gates well in our times. It has been said that Wisdom dwells at the rivers rims and ridges—the place of communication between, the edges between cultures and spaces, and the high places, places where we meet what we worship. Let us meet Wisdom in all three spaces, and thus, pour forth in love towards one another!
 Let’s be bridges of reconciliation! Blessers from above and into the waters of our cities! That’s what we will be remembered for. I think we will be held accountable for how we used our rivers, bridges, and boundaries, and they reveal our heart, as people, cities and nations.
 When I am a reading city, I often look at how they are currently using their bridges, gates (entry points, could be train stations or airports), and rivers to determine their spiritual health. The same is true with us—was I welcoming today, did I get to place where I saw it all from Above, and did I communicate what I saw in love to others around me. These to me are basic questions of daily life.
 Let’s use our bridges well, and be good bridges, so our rivers carry their messages out into the good soil of one another’s hearts.