Doors are also metaphor for entrances, and exits enabling the traveller to bid farewell, and welcome new opportunities appearing in their good time. It has been noted by wise sages over the centuries that obsessing over perceived failure blocks the prospect that is even now knocking on our door as if to say, open your heart and receive my wisdom ready to flow into your life.
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
~ Jeremiah 29:11
Reflecting on our past year provides us with the awareness that our life's lessons encourage us never to sulk over perceived failure, rather acknowledge that our every experience is life enhancing sufficient to learn that we are better able to cope with our next ordeal.
Dead end alleys also reflect metaphor when we confront our understanding that we do not possess all the answers to life's invitation to face the music, or surrender to our fear that there is no escape from the next ordeal rapidly closing in to destroy our self confidence.
A humble acceptance of what we may perceive to be an impossible dilemma can open the door facing us, enabling us to see beyond our self focus shackling us to our self interest, blinding us to the way out of the puzzle that had driven us into a pit filled with self pity.
Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own reputation, and therefore they no longer need to waste their efforts in defending them.~ Thomas Merton
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