The Road Not Taken

The following classic poem by American poet, Robert Frost, illustrates a simple reflection on a major life-changing shift in one's life:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long stood
And look down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference (Source)

Beloved, Robert Frost was right. Of the two diverged roads traveled in this life, take the road less traveled, for that road will indeed make all the difference.

---Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets

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