Take a good look at this picture. Now look closer. If you need to…click on it to see a bigger version. Take notice of what your eye is focusing on. The photographer, in this case Bruce Dale, working for National Geographic, uses a common technique to create interest and draw the viewer’s eye into the photo. By taking a picture of the doorway, the photographer has created a “portal” to draw you into the picture, making it more interesting.
How many portals can you count in this picture? Three? More? The ascending stairway disappearing through the top of the photo is another portal. Your mind can’t help but wonder what’s at the top of the stairs or through those two doorways under the stairs. The longer you look, the more engaged your imagination becomes. What do you think is up there?
There are plenty of examples of portals in literature too. Alice in Wonderland disappeared down a rabbit hole, Dorothy’s tornado took her out of Kansas, Peter, Susan, Edmond and Lucy found another world through the back of an old wardrobe, Frodo discovers a powerful evil in a golden ring. All of these are portals…windows to something more.
Pioneers love portals. Pioneers spend their nights dreaming of what’s over the next hill or around the bend. A road disappearing into a dark forest is enough to give a pioneer fits until she can run down that road and see what mysteries are hidden in the trees.
What about you? If I were to look into your eyes (your own personal portal to your heart) what would I see? What mysteries lurk in the dark corners? What untapped resources are just waiting to be discovered?
We are all portals to a greater kingdom….another universe where all things are possible. We are filled with secrets waiting to be uncovered—mysteries that will bring deliverance, passion, healing, love, and new discoveries the rest of us are desperate for.
Thanks to Roy Williams at the Wizard Academy for the insight on portals.
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