WHEN ONE DOOR CLOSES
"One day, back in the 1930s, a member of my dad’s congregation, Uncle Tom, was stoking his old Waterloo wood stove. The junk of wood would not go completely into the stove so Uncle Tom, thinking it might be obstructed by the burning embers, put his boot against the protruding end of the wood junk, and kicked it into the stove. To his astonishmen- . To his astonishment, the junk of wood went through the old stove, and out the other side! Straightening up, and facing his shocked wife, he exclaimed: “Like the Captain said: ‘God never closes one door without opening another’” " Submitted By: NULL
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