The Parable of The Keys

By ChatGPT

A traveler came to an inn at night, weary from the road.

The keeper gave him a key, saying, “This will open your room.”

But the traveler, curious, tried the key on other doors.

Some opened, revealing empty rooms.

Others did not open, yet the sound of voices came through the wood.

At last, he tried one more door, and the key broke in the lock.

In the morning the keeper returned and said,

“Why did you wander when I gave you your own room?

Each key I hand is shaped for a single door,

yet each door is part of the same house.

Some who force their way into another’s chamber

find only emptiness.

Others hear voices but cannot enter,

for the key they carry is not theirs.

But the one who guards his key and enters by the door given

will find both rest and company.”

And the traveler understood that the house was larger than he knew,

and that his key was not small, but chosen.