Doorway People

Friday afternoon, weekend shaping up...I seem to always get reflective on Fridays.

I'm listening to Dan take message after message from well wishers -- people who have known him for the 18 years he has worked in the telecommunication industry. Evidently, this layout is much deeper than we first realized as many, many great minds are being cut. Interesting to think what all those amazing minds could accomplish if they were to put their heads together someway...what kind of company, what kind of solutions could be found if they could work with their full potential?

Dan has a compadre of people that love him and have loved working with him. Dan is just that kind of person...kind to a fault, thoughtful and steady. The quintessential "Great Guy".

We have the usual kids activities this weekend -- bball tourney, soccer tourney and we're finally starting to paint N's bathroom, which is going to totally ROCK with its dramtic tones and electic feel. The highlight of my week as a mom -- was able to pick out shoes that Nathan will actually wear with a suit when he starts taking on all those Senior Activities....I deserve some honorary medal or some kind of design token for making that happen, I do believe.

I've been thinking about the different passages of life and how the people that we come to know are at times entrances into a new way of thinking. These are the people that provide the emeregence of values, of ideas, and somewhat forcefully cause us to take on the great journey of life.

Some people we come to know are exits that cause us to take the quickest ramp towards something else. Their presence seems to caution us, "go down this way and certain doom will impart."

And then some people are doorways that allow you to explore before unseen and unheard of ideas. They don't stay around too long and they may not show up at dinner. Indeed they may be the author of a book or a teacher that one holds in high regard. They probably can't identify you by name, but you know them and their spirit during the darkest of nights, the roughests of times, the stormiest of seas.

I think these kind of "doorway" people are the true angels of our world. They don't hover. They don't press. They probably do what they do without a lot of fanfare and may not even know how they touch our lives. Its not so much that they introduce things to us as to help us continue down a path that we are already on...they don't alter the course of ones life as much as they define it

...perhaps that we don't realize we are treading. They help us find the signposts that we may be searching, in spite of our ardent claim that we are NOT searching.

They are an extension of a greater power, an extension of a spiritual force that shapes us over time.

The lead us to greater things within ourselves and within our world.

('m not sure the metaphor stands up...so I'll keep thinking about it.)