Missed Opportunities

School starts for the elementary school across the street at 8:30 am. It is a morning ritual to look out at the window to see the children waiting in a single file line, and walking at exactly at 8:30 am. So the other morning, I watched with interest as two janitors walked out the door to take out the garbage and back into the door. Shortly after they were inside, a car pulled up at 8:47 am. A small child jumped out of the back seat, (he couldnt have been more than first grade). He strategically ran to the door and began to knock. He didnt even check to see if the door was open. He didnt even wait to see if somone had heard his knock. It was as if he knew that was not going to work, but he was instructed to at least try. Just as Quickly as he had jumped out of the car, he got back into the car. The care circled around the corner and took him to the office, where he should have been escorted in the first place. But within a half a minute after the boy was back in the car, the two janitors opened the door to the school and walked in. If the little boy had just had a little faith that someone heard his knock, he would have gotten in the building the first time. Many of us approach opportunity in the same way. We knock, not expecting to be heard, and walk away way too soon. As soon as we are gone the door opens. If we only had a little faith. Jesus says to knock and the door shal be opened.