trey taylor

let door open

// November 13th, 2008 // faith, leadership

We love to play dress up around here and Monday night Bella was rocking her Princess outfit with all the accessories: the tiara, the necklace, and of course the magic wand. At one point she had closed the door to the playroom and she was standing outside the door yelling, “LET DOOR OPEN!” 

Just so you know, we don’t teach magic at our house, and since she’s only 2 I doubt that she’s somehow gotten into the whole faith-the-size-of-a-mustard-seed-move-mountain thing.

But for some reason she thought that she could just simply command the door to open and it would.

My life has been full of moments just like that. I could see myself immediately. Standing there (typically without the tiara and magic wand), looking at what seems to be the perfect door, and wondering why that perfect door, thats seemingly made for me, isn’t open. 

So what do I typically do? 

“LET DOOR OPEN!”

My compulsion is I’ve gotta test out every door. Whether right or wrong. I’m gonna give it a whirl. And every time I do its typically a giant step back. 

Doors are opportunities, yes. But more often they are distractions. I think distractions knock louder than opportunity. But thats just me.

Maybe its my lack of confidence with where I am right now that I’m always wanting to do more, or something different, or even what it seems I should be doing. No matter how I look at it, it always becomes a distraction.

Just because there’s a door doesn’t mean you should open it.

Be confident with where you are and where you’re going, when God shows up and gives you a true confidence then you’ll know to start flinging some doors open, but not just any doors, the right ones.

“There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction”
    -Winston Churchill