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The Doorway

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I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. 
John 10:9 ESV

The first door I remember
My mom opened up for me
And there I ate the things she cooked
And learned my A-B-C’s
Me and mom 1952
The next lead to a classroom
With a teacher waiting there
It was exciting meeting other kids
Though they whispered and they stared
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Past the third door was my family
And we journeyed through the years
As all of us grew older
We shared struggles, joys and tears

So now there is just one more door
But it I will not fear
Because under it shines a light 
And songs of angels sounding near

And God knows that we are wondering
When we must His schedule keep
But we can trust our Shepherd’s time
 For every blood bought sheep!

The Doorway
by Peter Caligiuri
Copyright 2023
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No Need To Knock

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No need to knock on Jesus’ door

It’s open all the time

Though He will surely knock on ours

As He is passing by

And looks in through our windowpane

To see an empty spot

That at our kitchen table sits

And our food fresh cooked and hot

And asks if He may enter in

To forgive our sins and more

 And join the family circle now

That He’s come in our door!

No Need to Knock by Peter Caligiuri © 2020 All rights reserved

Knock – Knock

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Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. Matthew 7:7 ESV

“Knock knock – who’s there?” go the opening lines of some of my favorite childhood jokes but I almost never could guess what the person asking me was going to say. In the Bible Jesus says two things about knocking that leave me scratching our heads for answers.

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He begins talking about prayer as if it were like a visit to a friend’s house. It all sounds great in the Bible; that all I have to do is ask, or go looking for something or knock on a door and boom…I get what I want. But what about those times when we asked and nobody answered. What is God telling us when we sometimes seek for years and still don’t find. Or does he even hear me when I have struggled just to find the door and when I got there it seemed to be locked?

But the teaching of Jesus is true. God always listens to His children, but His pause before the answer is usually longer than we like. He has been watching as we looking in all the wrong places; waiting patiently for us to come to Him. He has not locked us out, and in fact He has left His own home and stands outside our door knocking. He has made it our choice to open to invite Him in to stay.

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. Revelation 3:20 KJV