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In June of 1990, I was fortunate to be in Berlin on a performing tour.  After leaving Denmark, we entered what was then East Germany.  This happened to be just days before borders came down, and we then made our way to Berlin.  While we were in Berlin, the borders that had divided east from west did come down.  And, while we were in Berlin, we were able to chop down our own piece of the wall.  My piece of that memorable, insidious, hostile wall now sits on a bookshelf in my kitchen as a reminder of that trip and that historic event.  It also always reminds me of something else - that walls of hostility, whether concrete or metaphoric, are created because of fear and they ultimately divide families and nations as the Berlin wall did for so many years.    As we look at today’s reading in Ephesians, we hear about dividing walls, the dividing wall of hostility that had existed between “Jew” and “Gentile.”  The heart of this reading is Paul’s reminder that in Jesus Christ these two distinctive peoples have become