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I Stand by the Door | |||
by Sam Shoemaker | |||
I stand by the door. | |||
I neither go too far in, nor stay too far out. | |||
The door is the most important door in the world - | |||
It is the door through which men walk when they find God. | |||
There is no use my going way inside and staying there, | |||
When so many are still outside and they, as much as I, | |||
Crave to know where the door is. | |||
And all that so many ever find | |||
Is only the wall where the door ought to be. | |||
They creep along the wall like blind men, | |||
With outstretched, groping hands, | |||
Feeling for a door, knowing there must be a door, | |||
Yet they never find it. | |||
So I stand by the door. | |||
The most tremendous thing in the world | |||
Is for men to find that door - the door to God. | |||
The most important thing that any man can do | |||
Is to take hold of one of those blind, groping hands | |||
And put it on the latch - the latch that only clicks | |||
And opens to the man's own touch. | |||
Men die outside the door, as starving beggars die | |||
On cold nights in cruel cities in the dead of winter. | |||
Die for want of what is within their grasp. | |||
They live on the other side of it - live because they have not found it. | |||
Nothing else matters compared to helping them find it, | |||
And open it, and walk in, and find Him. | |||
So I stand by the door. | |||
Go in great saints; go all the way in - | |||
Go way down into the cavernous cellars, | |||
And way up into the spacious attics. | |||
It is a vast, roomy house, this house where God is. | |||
Go into the deepest of hidden casements, | Go into the deepest of hidden casements, | ||
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So I shall stand by the door and wait | So I shall stand by the door and wait | ||
For those who seek it. | For those who seek it. | ||
"I had rather be a door-keeper..." | "I had rather be a door-keeper..." | ||
So I stand by the door. | So I stand by the door. |