Closed Doors

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
Alexander Graham Bell

Frustration is not a pleasant feeling. We don’t like to be thwarted in our actions. Anything that keeps us from doing what we think we need to do is resented and feared. We get angry. We regret that we could not finish our plans and thus achieve what we wanted to. We are stuck spinning our wheels because we don’t know what to do next. Often it seems like there isn’t anything that we can do to acheive our goal. We made our plans and pinned our hopes of success onto them, and without them we are lost.

When something unexpected happens that prevents us from following our plans, we get upset because it shows us that we are not in control of our world. We want everything to go the way we want it to, the way we planned it to. But the world doesn’t work like that, and that’s a good thing because we often have very limited vision and understanding of the best way to acheive something.

God knows better than we do. It tries to nudge us in the right direction. Unfortunately we are so attached to our plans that we don’t even notice God’s nudges. We are staring so regretfully at our failed plans that we don’t notice the new and better opportunity to get what we want. Don’t let that happen to you. Focus on your goals; and if your first plan doesn’t work out, watch and wait for a better plan to come to you. It will.