Living Proof with Beth Moore is sponsored by the friends and partners of Living Proof Ministries.

I want to pitch out to you that it is possible that a door you have found recently closed

is not going to stay closed. I mean, that's up to God. That's up to how he works with you.

But I'm just going to tell you that sometimes he purposes that we'll walk up to a door,

and I'm talking about in our life journey, we'll come up to a door.

Man, we really, really thought that was it, and it's shut tight.

But what you may not know and what I may not know is that maybe the reason why it's shut tight

is because he wants the delight of opening it.

My daughter Amanda is married to my son-in-law Curtis, who is the pastor of our church.

They're a very, very fun family.

They have three kids, a middle schooler, and then Annabeth, my namesake, is nine,

and then they have this little two-year-old who came well after the other two, and we've had so much fun with her. We are crazy about these kids,

and so a couple of weeks ago, Amanda and Curtis had planned a big night for the kids. Well,

really, Curtis had not planned it at all. He would have been just as happy to sit home and watch a football game on the television, but instead of a man, she said,

we are going to go to the theater. And Houston is a big city with a very, very fancy theater.

And I mean, it's an all-out occasion when you dress up to go. And where they live out in the suburbs, it would be a good

45-minute drive into downtown at night with all the lights, all the beauty of being in a theater,

getting the kids all dressed up. It was sleeping beauty. Willa, the baby was staying home with a babysitter. It would

just be the four of them. Curtis, Amanda, and Jackson and Annabeth all going to the theater

together and they looked so forward to it. Man, had him leave right on time. They went to dinner

on the way, a really special dinner, an expensive dinner, because it was the night

of the theater. This was a special night. Everybody's really dressed up. They park, they

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