Don't Close Doors Before They Open

Don’t Close Doors Before They Open

Ya know I had originally intended this to be vaguely political, but as I thought of it this became something else. I’ll probably make that point along the way but it’s not the point.

Sometimes we close ourselves off to things, maybe even magnificent things, before we encounter them. We “close doors” before they open.

Originally I intended to make the point that too often we look at the source of a thing, the person sharing with us or worse the faction, political, religious, ideological, before deciding if they have anything of value to teach us. Hear the message, not the messenger.

But more than that, much more than that, are the doors we close off to ourselves and within our souls. We decide we are too stupid, too old, too fat, too slow, too, too, too, and on and on. Excuses to hold ourselves back, to cut ourselves off from the good things in life.

Perhaps it’s fear, or caution, or a feeling that we do not deserve such things. Silence such thoughts for they are poison to the soul.

There are times in your life when you will have an instinctive aversion to a thing, and yes this may be a valuable warning of danger or harm and must be listened to. However it must also be examined. An aversion that helped us once may harm us next. We may associate some harm with the now that we should have grown past. We must always be evaluating ourselves as much as we evaluate everything else, more so really, so that we aren’t holding ourselves back.

Not all doors need be opened, or should remain open all our lives but we must be mindful that we do not pull them closed before we even hazard a guess at what lies beyond.

Thank you my friends and God bless;

~S. Wallace