The last couple of weeks have been some very interesting ones for me. I started this school year with a lot of ideas of how I wanted the year to pan out. I knew exactly when things were going to work out and how they were going to work out. I had in my mind a story of who I was going to be by the end of the year and thought everything would be perfect.
I'm sure many of you are already laughing. You know exactly where I am going with this.
The plan I had so beautifully drafted out in my mind began to crumble. Relationships I thought that would work out, didn't. Jobs I had applied for and "would obviously" get, didn't. The confident, happy, no worries, never tired (yea, who are we kidding), was becoming more and more the opposite. Doors were closing in my faces. Options were no longer options. I found myself become extremely discouraged.
I found a talk the other day by Dr. Brad Wilcox about closed doors. We always hear the phrase, "When one door closes, another opens"- but Dr. Wilcox gives it a completely new spin.
"At times, all of us run into closed doors. They are rarely pleasant and seldom wanted. However, when seen in an eternal perspective, closed doors may actually be helpful to us as they lead us to open windows of even greater opportunities."
Windows.
They are often things we can't see out of right away. They are often something we really have to try hard to look out of. They come in different shapes and sizes and some stay closed while other's allow a fresh new "air" to come into our lives. They require us to look up.
I know Heavenly Father has had a plan for me all along. I know He knows me better than I know myself. I just became too obsessed with MY plan and MY ability to figure things out, that I forgot to trust and use faith in waiting for the Lord's plans for me. He has the ability to open doors and windows that many people would imagine to be impossible- but not for him.
To be honest, I am still in a pretty closed door hallway. But when I choose to look up, I get the sense that there are some pretty beautiful, wonderful, light-filling opportunities and scenes that still need to be seen in my life. I need to turn to the Savior and let him guide and "see" those windows and doors that I can't see myself.
I am excited to see my windows.
Talk by Brad Wilcox: "Closed Doors and Open Windows" https://www.lds.org/ensign/1993/12/closed-doors-and-open-windows?lang=eng
Picture by Greg Olsen
I'm sure many of you are already laughing. You know exactly where I am going with this.
The plan I had so beautifully drafted out in my mind began to crumble. Relationships I thought that would work out, didn't. Jobs I had applied for and "would obviously" get, didn't. The confident, happy, no worries, never tired (yea, who are we kidding), was becoming more and more the opposite. Doors were closing in my faces. Options were no longer options. I found myself become extremely discouraged.
I found a talk the other day by Dr. Brad Wilcox about closed doors. We always hear the phrase, "When one door closes, another opens"- but Dr. Wilcox gives it a completely new spin.
"At times, all of us run into closed doors. They are rarely pleasant and seldom wanted. However, when seen in an eternal perspective, closed doors may actually be helpful to us as they lead us to open windows of even greater opportunities."
Windows.
They are often things we can't see out of right away. They are often something we really have to try hard to look out of. They come in different shapes and sizes and some stay closed while other's allow a fresh new "air" to come into our lives. They require us to look up.
I know Heavenly Father has had a plan for me all along. I know He knows me better than I know myself. I just became too obsessed with MY plan and MY ability to figure things out, that I forgot to trust and use faith in waiting for the Lord's plans for me. He has the ability to open doors and windows that many people would imagine to be impossible- but not for him.
To be honest, I am still in a pretty closed door hallway. But when I choose to look up, I get the sense that there are some pretty beautiful, wonderful, light-filling opportunities and scenes that still need to be seen in my life. I need to turn to the Savior and let him guide and "see" those windows and doors that I can't see myself.
I am excited to see my windows.
Talk by Brad Wilcox: "Closed Doors and Open Windows" https://www.lds.org/ensign/1993/12/closed-doors-and-open-windows?lang=eng
Picture by Greg Olsen
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