Close The Door

Travis Greene opens by naming a strategy that isn't working — keeping his distance, staying informed, watching the news in hopes it'll make him feel safer. Instead it feels like a movie stuck on credits: "if I never see the end of the film that I'm in, is it possible to press pause?"

His answer isn't more information; it's less. "When I close the door, I find what I've been looking for, and my faith will get stronger," Greene repeats, treating withdrawal from noise as the actual path to strength rather than a retreat from reality. He names the specific chaos he's shutting out too — social media, prescriptions, arguments "knuckle for knuckle."

Jesus instructs his followers in Matthew 6:6 to pray behind a shut door, away from performance, promising a Father who sees "in secret," and Peter tells believers to cast their anxiety on God in 1 Peter 5:7 because he cares for them. Greene's repeated title turns an ordinary, private act — shutting a door — into the specific place where his faith actually gets built.