How many doors have you opened in your life? Thousands? Hundreds of thousands?
For some reason I have been thinking about doors. Opening doors. Choosing the right doors. Closing doors. Having doors closed on me. Wishing a door to something I want would magically open in front of me.
When I first started thinking about doors, I thought of physical doors. Those doors can keep us safe or shut us out. They can lead us to work, play, prayer. They can be heavy or so light a child can open them.
Then, I realized that the most important doors are psychological, not physical. They are the doors to our hopes and dreams. When they close, we can feel alone, sad, angry, confused, frustrated. We know what we want, what we need. Then, despite our best efforts, the door is slammed in our face.
That’s when I think of this saying,
“When God closes a door, He opens a window.”
It is hard, though, to accept the closing of a door in our lives. We can spend so long looking at the closed door and trying to open it that we don’t see the light coming through the window. We long for what we can’t have and try to hold on to what is gone. When we do this, we can’t see the good things that are waiting for us.
Instead we should rest on the Lord and pray to understand what He is showing us through the window. Pray for the patience to wait for another door to open. When this door does open, you will understand that the doors behind you had to close so that you could walk through this new door.
A few months ago I saw this quote on a poster.
“Just when the caterpillar thought the end of
the world had come, he became a butterfly.”
I hope that, when doors close for each of us, we find something even more wonderful through the doors that open. Open doors and the patience to wait for them are sacred gifts.
May your blessings be many, your worries few.
I wish you countless sacred gifts.
