Open Door

What is an open door? I am beginning to learn more and more that an open door is simply an opportunity. Room to room, place to place, walking into your destiny. Each door looks a lil different; but you are given the opportunity to walk through each and every one. Sometimes you get a glimpse of what’s on the other side; other times you must simply have faith. As my writing journey has taken off I’ve experienced many opportunities, however I’d like to talk about one in particular. December 2021; I was on Christmas break… a friend sent me a flyer for an open mic night. I mean really what was I gonna do with that? 🤷🏽‍♀️ Now I chuckled because yea I write but not poetry/spoken word. You may find this hard to believe but I woke up in the middle of that same night writing pieces of my first poem. I’m still amazed myself. Within those next two days I had my first finished piece….. a piece in my hand and an opportunity in front of me. What was I gonna do??? Fear and anxiety were knocking…. So I silenced it with a phone call signing up for the event.  I posted the event and invited family and friends. There was no turning back now! My event was set for January 2022; I was starting my new year off with a bang! I was grateful to Simone’ LaRay Poetry and The Poetry Lounge for creating a space and an opportunity to get my “feet wet” and become apart of such a wonderful family/ community of poets. The past few months I had been praying for more; I was comfortable at The Poetry Lounge but I wanted to make more connections; explore more venues.  Well a few weeks ago I received a flyer in my messages from a friend for a Gospel mic night. I was super excited and expressed to her that I might sign up for it. Her response was “step out on Faith”. In fact when I told one of my other friends about it she said that she had been meaning to send that to me 👀Wow was all I could say.  Then fear and anxiety came knocking again….I purchased a ticket with the intent of “checking it out “ and maybe performing at another time. Nope… I got to the event and the guy said we’ve been looking for a poet; and to be honest I was still making up reasons why I couldn’t do it… I was in a whole boxing match with the “unknown” but again I silenced it with a “sign me up”. I didn’t stay nervous long because all I could think about was… I asked for an open door.  As I began to speak these words came so clearly to me… When God opens a door, you walk through it! He never said you have to have it all together, all you have to do is MOVE! I’m so glad I moved. Everything went great and someone who was there invited me to another event coming up soon. Opportunities y’all. I’m thankful for every open door; every opportunity to be who I was created to be! I believe the more I walk in obedience, the more he’s gonna bless me. I’ve walked past too many open doors. I got fear and anxiety under my feet this time! What opportunities do you have before you. Don’t let the fear of failing get in your way. Make that move…. One step at a time!

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