The Road Less Traveled

A panoramic view of the path I came on and the one forward pulled together with Autostitch (iPhone app)

I (Darren) went out on my bike today for the first time in quite awhile. I went to a new area where I haven't been very much. I have seen some baseball fields and never explored it. On Saturday morning, they had probably 4 or more baseball games happening. They are reworking the sidewalk and road along the river so it is just a dirt road right now. It is one reason I enjoy having a mountain bike. It was nice to get off the pavement and get into the dirt. One of my favorite poems is 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 layPost Options
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked 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.

Too often we take the easy comfortable way. I want to take a path less traveled. I want to be uncomfortable because that is where we are stretched and God changes us. However, like life, all things come to end. I'll look for a new path next time.