DOORWAYS

How many doors have I entered in my lifetime?
Through how many portals have passed?
Under how many arches have I walked?

In future, Lord,
let doorways, arches and portals
often remind me of the gates of heaven.

May they symbolize for me an entrance
to a new vista, a new vision, a new station,
an embarkation to new possibilities,
new opportunities to renew myself
and to redeem myself.

As I travel toward my goal and purpose
in my journey through life
to the blinding passage to eternity,
keep me ever mindful of the day of reckoning
in the forecourt of Your heavenly house.

With all my entrances already numbered
in the script of my life, how many yet remain?
Let me meditate on this as I pass through
these counted finite markers
on my journey to You.

Guide me, Good God, to avoid the wrong doors,
to exit from the presence of every evil,
and to make every entrance an opportunity
to bring myself closer
to finding the keys to the kingdom
and to gaining Your Eternal Welcome.

Please unlock, for your unworthy servant,
the passageway to paradise.

All this I pray to You,
Good God of Possibilities,
God of Opportunities, God of Renewals,
God of Revelations, God of Doors,
and God of Life.

Amen

(c) 2012 Donn B. Murphy

Image - Door 1 - Incarnate Word Press
Image - Background doors - Doug Klambara