The Five Doors

A Story About an Ordinary Life

What happens when an ordinary man finally sees what God saw all along?

David Ruman fixed furnaces for fifty years.

He never preached a sermon, never led a movement, never made the papers. He just showed up. For his wife, his kids, his customers, his God.

Now David is dead. And he’s standing before five doors.

Behind each one waits a revelation: battles fought on his behalf that he never saw, prayers answered in ways he never recognized, and an average life that turned out to be anything but.

The final door holds something more. Someone more. And the question David has carried his whole life, was it enough, is about to be answered.

This book is for:

• Anyone who has shown up, day after day, without recognition
• Anyone who needs to hear that God sees what the world overlooks
• Anyone who has ever asked God, “Does any of this matter?”
• Anyone who has prayed prayers that seemed to go unanswered
• Anyone who wonders if quiet faithfulness counts

Some lives don’t make headlines. They make eternity.

“I couldn’t stop thinking about this book for weeks. It made me see the everyday moments of my life as something eternal.”
Steve Merritt