Life is funny. An ironic kinda funny most of the time, with dashes of gut-chuckling funny thrown in. You start out with a set of dreams, of wishes, of knowing who you are. Then it changes. You get what you didn’t want and love it the most.
It happens all the time, the proverbial “closed-door-opened-window” scenario. How many open windows have you climbed through to discover – quite to your amazement – a bluer sky outside than the decor you thought you loved inside?
Our life is like a room that we painstakingly decorate. We clean it, mess it up, and then get boxed in. That is when a closed door reveals the open window. And sometimes that window is jammed. You really gotta roll up your sleeves and give her the “heave-ho!” But once you do, even if you didn’t want to shove that window open in the first place (since you were quite happy in your little room) the next place you walk through is oh so much better.
It is bigger, full of more possibilities. Possibilities for disappointment, anger, frustration, pain – but also full of hope. There are rays of sunshine through that window, glistening through the silver lining of rain clouds.
Nope, I am known for loving my own little room. I plan my room, I want my room my way. Then, just as I am getting good at it, just as I plan out how much more I am going to do in my room, then entire house is moved. I climb through the window God opens.
God laughs as these words: Never, always, my plans, definitely, of course!
Thank you. I needed this.
Right now, I feel like I’m still at the closed door stage, and searching (probably too hard) for that open window.
Good post. It certainly gave me somthings to think on. I’ll be sure to post my answers to your questions in the near future. Blessings Annie!
Your post defiantly gave me something to think about. For me I have Moved away from a little Island Puerto Rico to the Huge Continental US. I have always been a family oriented person and left it all behind to give my children a better future. I joined the Army as a single mother of 2 boys. Now I am remarried have more than I dreamed I would. I have a great Husband, 4 wonderful children and even though we have our ups and downs and the end of the day I am glad to be were I am.