Appreciating Closed Doors

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it always had my back. We can always use the reminder!<h1 id="76a0">The Shabby Dresser</h1>I have been on a quest to get better organized. It was decided that we needed another dresser in our bedroom. I searched Facebook Marketplace and found 2 dressers being sold by the same person. We found out one dresser was already sold. We wanted the other one, but it was currently on hold. She would let us know if the guy didn’t come to pick it up. We were the next in line. Well, that dresser sold too.I found another dresser being sold on Facebook and messaged the seller. The lady said it was still available. Great! I asked when we could come to get the dresser. She never got back to me. Maybe she decided to keep it?I didn’t want to buy a new dresser. I searched the second-hand stores in town, but none of them had a dresser. Finally, I found a free dresser being offered on the reuse, recycle page and was excited to be the first in line.At first, she told me the dresser had 6 drawers. That sounded perfect. It had lots of storage. Then she replied that she had been wrong and that it only had 4 drawers. She wanted to know if I still wanted the dresser. I said yes. We drove over to pick it up that evening. She lived in a third-floor apartment. I carefully helped to pack that dresser down all those stairs. I am relieved that it was light!The dresser was in a shabby shape. The bottom was coming out of one of

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the drawers. It looked like a difficult fix, but my husband quickly figured it out. The dresser was also missing half of the pull knobs. I found similar replacements at a local thrift store. It was now in working order.When we moved it into the bedroom we quickly realized that the previous 3 dressers wouldn’t have worked for us. They had been much too tall for the only space we had available to put the dresser. We would have made it work, but it would have partially blocked the bedroom window.This shabby dresser was the perfect height. It stopped right below the window sill. If it had had 6 drawers, like the lady originally thought, it would have been too tall as well.If I had found a dresser at a thrift store and had an option of a short one or a tall one, most likely I would have chosen the tall one. More storage would have seemed the best option, but it wouldn’t have been the right fit.I didn’t realize until the dresser was in the bedroom that 4 drawers were all we needed. I am thankful for the previously closed doors on the other dressers. Once again, the universe knew exactly what was best for the situation.Do you have a closed-door that later you appreciated? There are so many different types of closed doors: a relationship that didn’t work out, a canceled vacation, not getting into grad school, etc. Share your story in the comments. I would love to read them!</article></body>

Something better is coming

I don’t know where the saying, “when God closes a door he opens a window” came from. There is also a similar saying, “when one door closes another door opens,” that I have heard since I was small, and I do not know where it came from either.

Both of those sayings tell us not to mourn over closed doors. There are more opportunities ahead. Often a door closes for a reason. The next door that opens could be much better than we ever imagined.

This is something I have been thinking a lot about lately. I’ve been reflecting on closed doors relating to jobs as well as closed doors in other areas of my life. Over the years I have learned to have more faith in the future.

A closed door is not the end of the world. It might feel like it at that time, but everything is going to be okay.

Here is a fun little story about a closed-door that happened to me recently. It wasn’t over anything big or important. It was all about a dresser. Still, it was the universe letting me know that it always had my back. We can always use the reminder!

The Shabby Dresser

I have been on a quest to get better organized. It was decided that we needed another dresser in our bedroom. I searched Facebook Marketplace and found 2 dressers being sold by the same person. We found out one dresser was already sold. We wanted the other one, but it was currently on hold. She would let us know if the guy didn’t come to pick it up. We were the next in line. Well, that dresser sold too.

I found another dresser being sold on Facebook and messaged the seller. The lady said it was still available. Great! I asked when we could come to get the dresser. She never got back to me. Maybe she decided to keep it?

I didn’t want to buy a new dresser. I searched the second-hand stores in town, but none of them had a dresser. Finally, I found a free dresser being offered on the reuse, recycle page and was excited to be the first in line.

At first, she told me the dresser had 6 drawers. That sounded perfect. It had lots of storage. Then she replied that she had been wrong and that it only had 4 drawers. She wanted to know if I still wanted the dresser. I said yes. We drove over to pick it up that evening. She lived in a third-floor apartment. I carefully helped to pack that dresser down all those stairs. I am relieved that it was light!

The dresser was in a shabby shape. The bottom was coming out of one of the drawers. It looked like a difficult fix, but my husband quickly figured it out. The dresser was also missing half of the pull knobs. I found similar replacements at a local thrift store. It was now in working order.

When we moved it into the bedroom we quickly realized that the previous 3 dressers wouldn’t have worked for us. They had been much too tall for the only space we had available to put the dresser. We would have made it work, but it would have partially blocked the bedroom window.

This shabby dresser was the perfect height. It stopped right below the window sill. If it had had 6 drawers, like the lady originally thought, it would have been too tall as well.

If I had found a dresser at a thrift store and had an option of a short one or a tall one, most likely I would have chosen the tall one. More storage would have seemed the best option, but it wouldn’t have been the right fit.

I didn’t realize until the dresser was in the bedroom that 4 drawers were all we needed. I am thankful for the previously closed doors on the other dressers. Once again, the universe knew exactly what was best for the situation.

Do you have a closed-door that later you appreciated? There are so many different types of closed doors: a relationship that didn’t work out, a canceled vacation, not getting into grad school, etc. Share your story in the comments. I would love to read them!