I was doing something Friday. I'm not going to say what. But I thought I could start and complete this thing in one hour or so. It turns out, I will not be able to finish it till Monday.

That made me depressed a little. I was thinking - there are always more doors to go thru. Right when I get to my destination, I'm really not at my destination at all and I find another door to go thru. Door after door. It seems to never end and that makes me depressed.

Then I started to think about our Spirits and our Intelligences. Our Intelligences have always existed. No beginning and no end. All of us on the earth have been learning more and more every second on this earth, in the prelife, and even before the prelife. We have been going thru different doors forever, learning each step of the way.

That made me realize, I should be thankful for all the doors that I have to go thru in my life. Would I rather be in the Garden of Eden before our first earthly parents, Adam and Eve, partook of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil? Before Eve went thru that first door on earth, partaking of the fruit, she and Adam were stuck in the same room forever. No death, no pain, no pleasure, no sympathy, no children. Yes, it was paradise, but a bad paradise. There was no room for growth. There were no doors to growth. The only door was the fruit from the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

After that glorious event, when Eve and Adam ate the fruit, more and more doors, learning experiences, opened up to all of us. The Fall was definitely a Fall forward for all of us. Because of Adam and Eve eating the fruit, we are here on this earth right now. Because of them, we have many doors to go thru, many opportunities to learn from.

Some of those doors, many actually, will lead into rooms that are dark, scary, sad, tempting, depressing. We do not have to succumb to any those bad things in those rooms tho. As long as we put our faith in Jesus, He will get us thru all our bad challenge in all those bad rooms. He will help us get to the next door. And when we get thru those rooms, Heavenly Father will be happy that we went thru another learning experience.

So, I'm starting to have a different outlook now. I'm grateful that I have lots of challenges, a lot of doors to go thru. Sure, I wanted to finish that certain thing today. But that's ok. That will give me another door to go thru on Monday. And the more doors, the more learning experience - the better.

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