Today started off like fall but ended on a summer note. Got hot when the sun hit the porch mid-afternoon so I came in and sat in my reading chair and watched the movie On Golden Pond. The movie was filmed in Holderness, New Hampshire, on Squam Lake. The autumn scenery is so beautiful in the movie. I loved it when Katherine Hepburn knocks on the cabin’s door and Henry Fonda calls out, “There’s someone at the door,” and she yells back, “It’s me you old fool.” Couldn’t help but laugh each time they did that.

Doors can symbolize so many things. A closed door or a locked door signifies rejection and isolation. An open door symbolizes an invitation and encouragement. “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me,” Revelation 3:20. When we open the door spiritually and let Jesus into our lives we accept his invitation to eternal life. The door to Jesus is always open with warmth and acceptance. When we open that door we find God’s grace with a “peace which surpasses all understanding, guarding our hearts and our minds in Christ Jesus,” Philippians 4:7.

I don’t think God ever locks his door. He doesn’t even have a key to the door. I’m not even sure you have to knock on his door. Everyone is invited walk through God’s door and be welcomed into God’s kingdom, no matter our transgressions, God has already forgiven our sins and is waiting to welcome us. God opens door of opportunity for us through our prayers. “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you,” Matthew 7:7-8.

God also closes the door when we are going down the wrong path, guiding us through new doors, following the path he has chosen for us. God closing a door in our life teaches us to be more prayerful and to wait for God’s time. When we find the doors to God closed in our prayers we just have to keep trusting him to open another door at the correct time in our life. “What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open,” Revelation 2:7. God is in control of our lives and has all the keys to the doors and gates on our path to heaven. We can knock on heaven’s door everyday in our prayers.

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