You have to look closely, but there’s something different about this door. It has no doorknob. It has a lock. It has a key that sits on top of the door jam. It just doesn’t have a doorknob. You just unlock it with the key and pull the door open.

The fact is, it doesn’t need a doorknob. It’s a closet in a church. It only gets opened a few times a year. It holds items that are valuable to the church but nothing anyone would want to steal.

Most of the time, the person who put it in would add a regular door with doorknob and lock. The person who installed this one, however, was thinking. I imagine him/her realizing what it would be used for, seeing that it didn’t need anything but a lock and key, and saving the church the two-holed door and doorknob.

My point is, many times we do things because “that’s how you do it.” Look at the things you take for granted and see if you are doing things that are unnecessary. You could save time and money.

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