"If one door closes, a window will always open."
Anyone else hear this growing up every time you didn't make the basketball team, or missed the deadline for that super fun fundraiser party if you sold a set amount of items? My mom was a stickler for this saying, and never failed to throw it in for any situation I wasn't too fond of. I wasn't really sure how it worked.
So you're saying because plan A didn't happen, I'll have to settle for plan B? I was always not so sure that I liked this trade off. Back in the day, I believed that the world was ending, my life was taking a hard nap, and it just couldn't get better when something didn't happen the way I planned it. I put my trust in myself that I could do these things, and it only got me so far. Looking back, I see that I put my trust in my doings of a human to conquer things I couldn't change.
I couldn't change the fact that I could not flip around, or that my toe touches weren't up to par with the rest of the contestants. I couldn't change the way I was made, and the talents that I had. I didn't understand why I couldn't do those things, and be just as good as they were. I didn't understand why I didn't get the same opportunity of being a cheerleader, or a star volleyball player. I didn't understand why I just wasn't good enough, so I wanted to change.
As much as I tried to be something that I wasn't, it lead me to constant disappointment. I wasn't satisfied in who I was, or what I was going to become. Back then, social clubs and sports teams where all I knew of. I was a youngin' wondering why I wasn't made like the others.
As cheesy as this story is, I feel as if us college kids get swept away in this daily. We are constantly comparing our lives to our peers, and placing our plans side-by-side seeing who "gets it" and is "going places." This is only leaving us questioning our own plans that we are slowly becoming sterile to.
"I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them." Psalm 139: 14-16
God has made us through his image, no man alike. He has crafted us into men and women that each have quirks and niches that play a special roll. It is so hard to peel away from society telling you that you aren't capable of achieving this when society has become the loud speaker of the century. Let me tell you this. The most refreshing thing to hear when you are running in circles, trying to find your place, is getting told you already have a place. Your place is in God.
God is good, and everything He supplies is for good. He has made you the person you are for reasons we are are slowly figuring out. The creator of this universe has placed you piece by piece. He makes no mistakes.
Be confident in the man or the woman that you are, and never let the fear of someone else's judgment get in the way of your dreams. God has a plan, and it will prevail. He may have to shut a couple of doors on the way, but don't let that alarm you. He's pushing you one step closer to something of great value!
It isn't that you aren't "good" enough; it's just that what was closed isn't good enough for you!
