“Mending Fences” is a book about relationships, good and bad. Why fences? I use that symbolically because all fences have gates. Through those gates, people come and go into our lives. Some we should never have allowed to enter the gate. Others should never have departed through that gate. Gates swing both ways. Sometimes we leave and we should have stayed and other times we stay and we should have left. And there were times when the gate was used so forcefully that it broke the fence (i.e. relationship). Others didn’t bother to use the gate at all, but broke the fence to enter or leave. And so, because of the problems in our relationships, there are fences that need mending.