Doors mark the transition between one place and another. Cross the threshold and everything changes. You may go from a confident teen in her own space to a daughter trying to navigate a web of complicate relationships with parents and siblings; or from a confident educator to a nervous adult all alone with 20 hostile children. On this side of the door you're one thing; on the other side, you may be something entirely different.
And yet it's precisely the change waiting on the other side that makes a door so alluring. So many stories begin with the decision to go through a door. Richard Mayhew goes through a door and finds himself in an unfamiliar London with black friars, velvets, a floating market and a Down Street that leads to the Angel Islington. The Pevensie children enter a wardrobe and find themselves in a land where it's been winter for a hundred years. Bilbo walks out his front door and finds himself on a road that leads to the Lonely Mountain, self-discovery, and a ring, the least of all rings, merely a trifle that Sauron fancies.
Doors are an invitation to explore in ways that mere hallways and open spaces are not, and Opportunity waits on the other side to help us grow, to transform us, and to make us beautiful.
The door was shut, but now as you stand there, it opens and a loud Voice calls out "Enter!"
The adventure of a lifetime awaits. The choice is yours.
Copyright © 2020 by David Learn. Used with permission.
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