The door that cannot be closed
Most of us see a closed door as the end of something. It can feel like rejection, limitation, or a lost opportunity. We instinctively reach for the handle, hoping it will somehow open again.
Yet Christ Jesus taught that the first act of prayer is not opening a door, but closing one. He said, “When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret” (Matthew 6:6). What door is it that we are being asked to shut?
Certainly not the door to God. Divine Love is never absent, and we could never shut ourselves out of His presence. Rather, Jesus is asking us to close the door on the clamor of material sense—the relentless voices of fear, distraction, self-will, public opinion, and anxious reasoning. He is inviting us to step away from the world’s insistence that the physical senses tell us what is real.
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