Life is full of choices. Why do we make the choices that we do? What is the driving force that leads us in a certain direction? Do we go by feelings, or by our desires, or by comfort, or by what “everyone else is doing” or by what we sense God wants us to do?
Yogi Berra said: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” I guess he thinks it doesn’t matter which choice you make. Yet every choice has its pluses and minuses.
Joshua said: "Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your forefathers worshiped beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, …But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD." NIV (Joshua 24:14-15)
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both.
And be one traveler, long I stood,
And looked down one as far as I could.
"Then took the other, 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 in equally lay,
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet, knowing how the 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.
Robert Frost: The Road not Taken
Yogi Berra said: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” I guess he thinks it doesn’t matter which choice you make. Yet every choice has its pluses and minuses.
Joshua said: "Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your forefathers worshiped beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, …But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD." NIV (Joshua 24:14-15)
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both.
And be one traveler, long I stood,
And looked down one as far as I could.
"Then took the other, 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 in equally lay,
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet, knowing how the 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.
Robert Frost: The Road not Taken
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