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One Door Opens & Another One Closes – Maybe I have often heard that God directs our paths by opening and closing doors. I am not so sure. Late last night I was at the post office with my little man Brendan and this photo happened before my eyes. There was nobody else there and I was rummaging through my mail. When I turned to look at him he was standing in front of the large wall of box doors – opening and closing them just to see what was inside. He liked the bigger ones the best, but the problem was that he couldn’t remember which he had opened and closed – so he just kept running around in madness and glee. After a few minutes he turned, looked at me, and said, “Look at all these doors! Why are there so many doors? What do you think is inside? Woo – this is a lot of work.” He then returned to his “work” of exploration.
 My experience with the “door” theology of divine intervention is that I am never really sure which ones are open and which ones are closed and most of the time I am less sure of who is behind them. It’s like the “let’s make a deal” game with three doors where you always get to switch if you want to after the first one is opened – could do better could do worse. (By the way statistically you should always switch.) My problem is that I want to open them all, keep them all open, and try to walk through them all. I can’t stand the thought that I don’t know what is behind the closed ones and have no faith that the one I am walking through is better than the last one or the next one. I like the idea of doors; I just wished it worked better for me. And I really have no idea about the “When God closes a door he opens a window” concept. Am I supposed to crawl through it or just look out it? Is it raining? Is there a screen on it? What if I get stuck? |
