Finding the Right Door

Standing in the palace she knows that she is surrounding by the greatest luxuries and abundance she can imagine. The problem is that there are hundreds of rooms and she doesn't know which one has the food she so desperately needs to eat. She opens one door, and finds a room full of gold; not very edible, and useless at the moment. She runs down the hallway and randomly selects another door to open. Still no food. Silk won't satisfy her needs.

Why is there no food here, she screams. There is, she is just opening the wrong doors.

The same is true, oftentimes, when we pray to God. In our lost sense of frustration, we begin to think that there is nothing there for us, that we are doomed to failure in one area or another. But maybe we are just knocking on the wrong door. Perhaps, more often that not, we have just been knocking on the same door over and over again, and haven't bothered trying another door...