Here’s one of my favorite poems that kind of relates to what I wrote about yesterday: that fork-in-the-road decision. Have you ever reached a point of crisis where you KNEW you just had to make a major choice about something? Or have you been through a time when you felt like you hit “rock bottom” and you had nowhere to go but up? Did you ask God to help?

He’s always ready to listen to you — it just takes a small step of faith to talk to Him. Tell Him what you’re going through, what’s bugging you. Unload it! Sometimes, it’s during these desperate cries of the heart when you’ll know God is breaking through to answer your prayer. Now THIS is the kind of story you could write down to tell someone else — and you just might change their life!

“The Road Not Taken”
By Robert Frost

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
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.

From Bartley.com

Today’s scripture reading:

“We rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope” Romans 5 : 3-4.

I hate the suffering part, and I’m not all that good at persevering, but I love the hope part. Don’t you?