“When one door closes, another opens.” We say it to each other all the time, and it is half true. Doors do close, and a closed door is not the end. But it is easy to spend years staring at the one that shut.
This sermon starts with that old saying and offers a third version of it, then turns to a letter Jeremiah sent to people living in exile in Babylon, who were being told they would be home any day now. His word to them: build houses, plant gardens, raise families, seek the welfare of the city where you are. Grief over a closed door is real, and longing is not wrong. But the life in front of you is real too.
Jeremiah 29:4-9, with Isaiah 43:16-21. Week 3 of Listen to Your Life.