Tag: doors

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

~ William Blake

I am at the threshold of a door between what I had known and expected and what is unknown to me. Actually, I may be one step beyond that threshold. I am dealing with a very unexpected challenge that is requiring hope in the midst of fear, present moment awareness rather than future planning, and willingness to step back from being in charge to allow others to help me and pray for me and love me.

I vacillate between overwhelm with the messages and kindnesses of friends and family and even strangers who are praying and caring for me . . . a welcome overwhelm that feels like a warm, comforting safe place to dwell. And there is also the overwhelm from medical facts, statistics, and the physical experience of today’s technologies . . . an overwhelm that feels unsafe and fearsome.

I am keenly aware that I am not alone in this experience . . . it is a human experience and a spiritual pathway that so many others have taken and are taking or will take at some point in their lifetime.

The quotation that “caught” me this morning says there are doors between what we know and what we do not yet know or cannot know. I would change Blake’s word to “doorways”. Doors require opening to walk through, and there are some doors like that in our lives that we need to choose to open or leave closed. Images of doorways are different to me — they are openings that are already open. Some doorways we may choose to walk through or not. Some doorways we may not notice and therefore we walk by. Other doorways offer multiple openings and force a choice between one thing and another.

The doorway in my life today offers no choice . . . there is only one portal to enter without choosing or desiring this path. I cannot know what awaits on the other side. What will be revealed (in part or whole) when I step through onto the path? Adventure? Challenge? Affirmation? Ending? Healing? Love? Purpose? Call?

I am not a stranger to this doorway, though. I have walked through a similar doorway several times in my life and I have found a deepening of my spirit, an expansive space inside where empathy for others (and myself) dwells, experienced a humility that reminds me that a greater Being is accompanying me in love. In each experience, I have grown as a person, a therapist/healer, a spiritual guide.

While I am walking through a doorway onto a path that is new and unknown, gratefully, I am not alone. You who read this are part of my circle of witnesses. Thank you.