The final Jazz at Emmanuel for the season - Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Northside

Opening the Closed Door

Through the readings and musical selections, this Jazz Service will explore thoughts on what it may mean for you to open a closed door.

Doors are essential to our every day lives, but they are so much more. As symbols, they are gateways and barriers, welcomers and privacy, openers and boundaries, hospitality and safety, a way in – a way out, here and there, now and later, glamorous and shabby, big and small, wide and narrow, more and less, bold and subdued, real and imagined, pride and prejudice, belonging and ostracizing, life and death, open and closed.

To open a closed door is to venture, to be courageous, to dread, to anticipate, to fear, to wonder, to turn a corner, to imagine, to perish, to begin, to end, or simply live and move day to day. But sometimes, sometimes, opening a closed door is a whole new world.
That’s why we do it… and why we don’t.