Many of us have heard the famous Robert Frost poem, “The Road Not Taken.” The following is the last stanza:
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the road less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
It’s very obviously about life and the choices that we make. It’s so famous now that some of you may have even done school projects and reports on it about how it relates to life.
Have you considered how this stanza relates to the deeper Christian life, though? Not the everyday, nominal Christian life, but the uncomfortable, bold Christian life. The kind of life that sees church as just the “comfort recharge” station so that we can go back out into the world and be uncomfortable again as we let God work through us. The kind of life where people can tell that we love Jesus on EVERY day and not just Sunday.
The righteous life isn’t supposed to be one that is easily or carelessly walked. Jesus says in Matthew 7:13-14, “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and few find it.”
It’s like that quote from Braveheart, guys… “All men die, but few men ever really live!”
Don’t forget!
If you want a print of my dad’s painting (picture in the post below), please get in touch with me through this blog (“drop a line”). Please also talk about it to your friends and family to see if maybe they would want a print as well!
Thanks for reading and for all the encouragement. I’m officially leaving North Carolina to go to Haiti on the morning of July 4th!
