Opening Doors: Heavy Doors Require Help

By Matthew Whittle

doors on my mind lately, I was struck recently by how hard it is to open some doors. You know the doors, I’m talking about. Ones that are so big and heavy you have to heave to crack it open and then dart inside before it crashes shut behind you. Or sometimes it’s a door that just tends to stick. Maybe it’s old. Maybe it’s a little off kilter, but it takes a special touch to open it.

And of course, that got me thinking that sometimes life is like that, too. Sometimes there are obstacles that are so heavy, we can barely move them. Or that are such a puzzle that it takes just the right touch – a touch that maybe we don’t have. 

 But in both cases, all we need is the right help. 

Kind of like with our Habitat homeowner families. They all have this door of opportunity in front of them. And they are trying to open it, but sometimes they need our help – and your help – to open that door so that they can walk through and take advantage of that opportunity on the other side. We’re not opening the door for them, but we’re opening it with them as a community. 

And I’ve been reminded of that during our recent build days with Women Build at the end of March and our Advocacy Build with elected officials and candidates in April. Together, we are opening the sometimes heavy and sometimes tricky doors of opportunity.