“In every childhood, a door opens and the FUTURE comes in.”

That’s what I read in a smaller publication and I really like that. In fact I like those words very much. I have experienced them.

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Yes, that is happening to all of us. I know exactly how it happened to me and I would like to write about it. It would be a long story. Just a little bit here:

My favourite subject in school was what we called geography. At one stage in my life I knew all the names of the different countries in  South America including the names of the capitals off by heart.  – Venezuela: Caracas, Colombia: Bogota etc- I was very interested in foreign countries. I also liked to read about foreign countries. Of course, I read about the countries, because I wanted to go there….one day.

The door was opening wide!

One of the highlights in my travelling life was  cruising through the Suez Canal on my way to Thailand and arriving in Bangkok just before Christmas 1966.

We like it, when the door is opening. All of us have a joyful story to tell about the opening door.

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Romans 6:23

“FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS

DEATH,…. BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS

ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS OUR

LORD.”

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BUT JUST AS THE DOOR

IS OPENING AUTOMATICALLY,

IT IS ALSO CLOSING

AUTOMATICALLY!

We don’t like it, when the door is closing. The story can be quite sad, when the door is closing. But we all have a story to tell about the closing of the door. You don’t want to hear my story. Do I want to hear your story?

Recently I talked to a man about the Lord and he told me that his first wife died of cancer.

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It seems that the ‘door’ turns into a real door at the end of our lives for all  of us, a door without hinges – the coffin lid.

John 10:7; Matthew 7:14,15