Keys

The door is locked by a small, but powerful and quite effective lock,

We look through the key hole to see what’s on the other side, but we can’t open it without the key,

The lock and the key have quite the relationship, one cannot work without the other

It’s really mind blowing to think that the only thing that stops us from getting to the other side is one, rather small, seemingly fairly insignificant handcrafted key

The lock is small and so is the key, but they both work together to form a powerful bond that keep that door from opening.

It only takes the key entering the key hole and turning the right way in the lock, for the door to open.

As we look in the key hole, we see a glimpse of the other side, we long to be there and to experience what’s there. 

It’s very intriguing when we’ve never been on the other side, we don’t know what awaits us.

There is obviously a reason why the door is locked, actually perhaps it isn’t a door.

Maybe it’s a chest, or a safe, or a diary, maybe a locket.

Either way, it is locked and there is a reason for it.

Maybe we locked it or maybe someone else did.  

Perhaps we’ve never seen the other side. 

Perhaps we’re not supposed to, maybe that’s why it’s locked.

Maybe we’re being protected from the other side.

Something awaits us.

Again, I can’t help but think about how small a lock and key, and key hole can be, yet something rather significant and great can lie on the other side.

The strong and significant bond that is created between the lock and keys is a picture of the great role of the two.

They work together to protect something or even someone. 

People lock the door to their homes to keep people from entering,

Safes are locked, typically very strategically and securely, to keep people from getting the valuables within.

Lockets are locked, and so are diaries; we want to keep what’s dear to us from other people’s eyes.

Caged doors in prisons are bolted and locked to keep the prisoners in the jail.

Caged doors on animal cages are locked and bolted to keep them in, so they don’t hurt anyone.

There is a purpose for keys and locks.

As we continue to look through the key hole, we long to be on the other side, but perhaps this particular key hole will never see a key entered through it, well at least not while we’re around.

Perhaps what we’re seeing through this particular key hole is all we’re going to see.

Maybe we’re being protected from something greater than we even know.

It’s amazing to think that such a thing as a lock can keep us from so much, can protect us from so much.

Or maybe it’s not protection, but it’s neglect.

Maybe it would be better for us to see the other side, at it’s fullest, but perhaps we’re being kept from it.

There’s a great reason why someone invented keys and locks. 

Their bond is remarkable.  But is it always a good thing?

To be kept from something?

Because we don’t always have the power to unlock something, we don’t have the keys.

How do we determine what should be locked and shouldn’t be?