Doors

I have been meaning to write this for awhile and I’m sorry that I have not.

Life is a journey this is my first and foremost belief above all others about this topic. If we do not learn and grow constantly then we do not truly live. Therefore the past few months I have been studying what I should do with this gift God has given me, and even what exactly that gift is. Who am I? What drives me? What am I called to do with the rest of my life? Because life is a journey the answers to these questions change, frequently. They grow and develop as we do. At each stage of our life the answers may be different and so we must change course with them. We must open new doors and see what lies within and then decide which door most matches with our answers to these question and go through it to experience fully whatever lies there.

Part of our problem is that we don’t want to know what our doors contain. We are scared. So we open the first door and go in assuming that the other doors could not contain anything better. Or we look in our friend’s, our family’s, anyone’s doors and bemoan the fact that our doors could not possible hold the wonders contained in their doors. We couldn’t possibly explore the existing and maybe even create a new door if need be. A new door requires tools that maybe we don’t have, or knowledge we lack. This is where friends and family are important maybe your friend has a hacksaw or your Dad may have a level. In building new ways around a problem together you all grow as individuals and as a team. Much pity I have for those who live in too much fear to overcome and open those doors to explore. Do they really think that God who loves and created them would not put in some beautiful doors? Yes some doors are hard and scary but those are usually the results our mistakes and God has put behind each one the most beautiful door of all, grace. So I challenge you to open your doors and go through. Even if you pick the wrong one that beautiful door will be there somewhere behind waiting for you.