Today's Thought - April

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April 14

When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.

~Alexander Graham Bell

Change is a basic fact of life, and with every change comes a loss. Even winning the lottery entails the loss of our life before the big win. During some periods of our life, we feel we are stuck and nothing changes, or we feel trapped in a situation we would love to change. Other times a change occurs that we would never choose, and we have to find a way to continue living with the new reality.

Coping with the closing and opening of doors is a fundamental spiritual matter. We are pilgrims on a journey and much of what happens along our way is beyond our control. Today will bring some things that we did not expect, and with the changes will be new possibilities that we did not expect. So we hold the spiritual attitude that while we cannot control what happens, we can choose how we will respond.

Today, I pray for the spiritual vision to see the doors that open for me.

Today's reading is from the book Stepping Stones: More Daily Meditations for Men*