The View Behind the Closed Door

  Have you ever made a plan in your mind of how you thought a situation or maybe even just life in general would go? Confession. I do. I get very focused on my plan and variations aren't always readily accepted. Not that I can't, I just am slow about switching gears. I recently had a situation that warranted the phrase "That door has closed" but it was particularly difficult to accept it. As I was fighting with God and myself about it, I got this picture in my head of myself standing with my nose an inch from the door screaming for it to be open. Have you ever stood that close to a closed door? Your view is....door. What was on the other side of the door was a great view, but it wasn't mine. All I could see was a closed door. I might be in a room full of other open doors, with even better views but I can't see those. I was too busy looking at the door, the closed door.