I view life as a path. There are doors, windows and splits along the path. As a believer in God, I have always maintained that God opens and closes doors/windows. Where two paths diverge from one, we have a choice to make.In my Bible reading, I happened upon a verse in Job where God "has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths." Job 19:8 (NRSV). The Message translation reads: "God threw a barricade across my path—I'm stymied; he turned out all the lights—I'm stuck in the dark." Doors close. In my life, I've experienced this several times. My father did not get a job in Schenectady, and thank God I remained in Kentucky. I did not win the lottery into the best public school; instead I attended the school where I would meet (and eventually marry) my high school sweetheart.
God opens doors. My education and career has been the result of open doors. The doors opened at precisely the right moment.
Robert Frost paraphrased Matthew 7:13-14 when he wrote in The Road Not Taken,
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—It is where two paths diverge that we face the most struggle, but I have often found myself remaining calm because I rely on God to direct me down a particular path through an open door. To the extent I might be wrong, I've been very lucky.
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
