God prepared that window not to open itself

In the past, I like this sentence very much, because it can send hope to people in trouble. As a teacher, I used to say this to my students, and it felt so right that they felt like chicken soup for their hearts. But something happened to me a few days ago that put it in a new light.

One of my students, whose left arm was amputated when he was young, failed the college entrance examination. With the help of his father, he opened a small shop. But he found it too hard to deliver goods with one arm, and soon closed the shop. Later, he went to karaoke to manage the sound system. After a short time, he still felt uncomfortable, so he quit again.

Four years later, when I met him again and asked him how he was doing, he said, "I haven't found a suitable job yet."

After a moment of embarrassment, he said to me, "Teacher, you once said to me, 'When God closes a door, he will also open a window.' But, over the years, why didn't God open any window for me?"

It was only then that I realized how shallow my indoctrination had been. So, after saying a few words arduously, I was defeated and left.

On reflection, this maxim is more like a riddle, which leads one to believe that the merciful God must be careful about balance: give you half a catty here, and you will have eight taels there.

But the truth is not so: when God closes a door, it is not easy to open a window for you. What God does is just to tell you that there is a window, and the rest is not God's business. That's the answer to the sentence. Whoever knows the answer to this riddle will not pray for God's gift, he will try to "open the window".

Stephen William Hawking, at the age of 21, God closed the door of his health, Lou Gehrig's disease made his whole body muscle atrophy, legs can not walk, his hand can not write, his mouth can not speak, all day confined to a cold wheelchair, the only capital is a brain and can move two fingers.

Hawking did not ask God, "Open the window!" But with indomitable perseverance and unremitting efforts, they opened the window. At the age of 46, he published his great book A Brief History of Time, and he has been hailed as "the greatest living scientist", "The Other Einstein" and "King of the Universe".

Frenchman Philippe Crosson, 26, had his arms and legs amputated after he touched a high-voltage wire. But he believes there is also a window for him: to be a strong swimmer.

To open that window, he hired trainers to learn how to swim, fitted prosthetic limbs to his remaining upper arms and flippers to his remaining thighs, then went into the water wearing goggles and breathing tubes for up to 35 hours a week of demon training. On September 18, 2010, he successfully crossed the 34km wide English Channel. The window God had prepared for him was finally opened by him.

There is a girl named Wang Qianjin from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province. She is 18 years old and suffers from cerebral palsy. She can't move her limbs except for her head. Wang Qianjin did not despair, sitting in a wheelchair, hard practice with lips to hit the keyboard, aiming at a key "press" down, a, then, hard to knock out one Chinese character after another.

In this way, she managed to write a novel of 200,000 words and became an online contract writer. She also opened the window that God had prepared for her.

Helen Keller, Ostrovsky, Gao Shiqi, Zhang Haidi...... They all know that God will not do anything for them, let alone guarantee their success. But they both succeeded.

My student, who lost only an arm, would have had plenty of opportunities to open that window. But he didn't. Why is that? Because he was "waiting for God's blessing."

If I go back to class again, I will tell the students: No matter who, God will not give more gifts, only give people in adversity to succeed. The difference is that the strong struggle in hope, while the weak wait in hope.