but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one,
which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
Carrying a chip on each shoulder often demonstrates an unwillingness to accept that yesterday's lessons should never prevent us from beginning afresh the day after yesterday.
Anchoring our life in the past leads to anger, frustration, and a slow, and debilitating journey filled with negative behaviour guaranteed to deny us our birth right to get over our self when the road of hard knocks teaches us another lesson, growing us out of our easy willingness to believe that we deserve a life daily filled with ease and comfort.
Dispensing with bitterness enables life's pioneer to resume our journey of self discovery, facing fresh obstacles encouraging us to develop enterprising solutions rather than spending time crying over spilt milk moaning why it all went so badly wrong...yesterday.
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens. “‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut.
I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.
~ Apocalypse 3:7-8
I often reference The Word alive in the life of every human person, inviting each of us to do all that He asks of us, for He is the key to all our dilemmas attempting to overpower our capacity to cope. The Word will open every door that appears shut, when we choose to follow His Word advising us how best to deal with the obstacle currently imprisoning us in our resentments.
I heard a loud voice from the throne say, “Look! God’s dwelling is here with humankind. He will dwell with them, and they will be his peoples. God himself will be with them as their God ~ Apocalypse 21:3
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