So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city.
Nobody laid a hand on Jericho's wall. Seven days of marching, seven priests with trumpets, silence the whole time except on the last lap — and then a shout, and the wall just falls. Whatever brought that wall down, it wasn't a battering ram.
That's an unusual way to win. Most of us assume the wall only comes down if you're strong enough to break it yourself — enough effort, enough force, enough skill. This story is built around the opposite idea: the people did the marching and the shouting, and something else entirely did the actual work of collapsing what looked immovable.
Maybe there's a wall in your life right now that looks too solid to ever come down — a habit, a relationship, a situation you've stopped believing can change. This story doesn't promise every wall falls the same way. But it's worth asking whether you've been assuming the only way through is by force, when there might be another way to walk.
If there's a wall in your life you've given up on, it might be worth wondering what it would look like to walk toward it differently.
A short video on this is coming soon — for now, read on.