What is it about doorways? As surely as doors have handles and hinges, they have feelings attached, as well. Wonder. Doubt. Hope. Fear. No doorway is ever just a doorway. It’s an opportunity or an obligation. A way into someone else’s life, or a return to our own. A beginning or an ending.
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Mitch Teemley 
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Love this post. Doors can be difficult to open sometimes. Especially when they’re our own.
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Indeed.
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Here’s one I struggle with:
John 12: 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone: but if it die, it brings forth much fruit. 25 He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. 26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be.
That’s also a paradox… “If you wish to live, then you must die!”
I believe the great majority of western “believers” struggle with that doorway, if they ever think about it.
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Yes, and Jesus’ insistence upon it is unremitting. Unless we die to our old selves we can’t become new creations.
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John 10:7 – So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I AM the door of the sheep.
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What a collection!
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They can be entrances or exits. They can keep us in or keep us out. The ability to read is the greatest door opener of all.
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True enough, Carl.
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I love doorways and doors….beautiful!
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“Just remember son, some doors have no handle on the other side” (mom, when I started dating)
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Wise mom!
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That’s a keeper!
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Super interesting doors. Loved the one in the mountains.
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Oh, I just LOVE that cat tail door handle!
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Wow! What an impressive curation job! As splendid as the images are, my favorite is the dog letting his buddy into the house.
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;>) Thanks, Liz.
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I love this, Mitch. You always find a way to stretch my mind using the seeming simple things, like doors.
Under your blog, there’s a section titled, “More on Mitch Teemley” and one of the posts highlighted in one you wrote in April of this year titled, “Discipleship is Dangerous.” I read it and in it you talked about the cross being the doorway to discipleship and it not being only about who Jesus is, but who I am.
Doors have a way of showing us the way, transforming us/telling us there is more–whether an erroneous way or THE way. I loved that post and saw how it fit beautifully with this one. An image of a cross as door would have a sweet little wink to that post!
Thanks for stretching me and causing me to reflect deeper on the things often taken for granted!
Karyn
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You think in metaphors, as do i, Karyn.
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Every closed door is the opportunity for a door to open.
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I enjoyed every door, thanks for taking the time to send this. You know what I like
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Fabulous, never saw these before! Thanks for display!
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Excellent compilation. There are some deep thoughts in there. Worthy of a poem. 🙂
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This was a fun post! I have a collection like this on Pinterest. I’ve never understood why. I just like them! One thing I know I like, though, is that they can be a canvas. Fun, beautiful, whimsical, majestic, enigmatic. One of the first things I thought of is the way older movies used a closed door to create a sense of tension and horror when they didn’t know what was on the other side of the door – something hideous? And hw much more terrifying was it when we only heard the sounds of something horrible happening. That’s where all secrets are contained, isn’t it? I also remember the surprise an old friend shared wit me after my mother’s death that there had been no doors on any of our rooms except the bathrooms – and they never shut completely. And it was an 18-room house! It seemed normal to me since I’d never gone to anyone else’s house until after high school; but I know it was behind closed doors that she’d been molested as a child. So her idea of safety left us without a sense of privacy. Isn’t it amazing, the power of a door?
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What a unique, sad and lovely take you have on doors, Laronda
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