The Road

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By: Elizabeth Haarberg

The Narrow Way

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Life is full of choices. There are some decisions that are good and others that are truly defined by right or wrong. When we’re looking at our life we have many ways that we can go, but Jesus is clear that the narrow road is the way.

“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 only a few find it.”
Matthew 7:13-14 New International Version

This verse reminded me of a poem by Robert Frost. In the poem Frost discusses that he wishes he could see what was on both trails but can only pick one. He picks the road that few have traveled and is now looking back on the decision fondly, knowing that he made the best choice.

 

The Road Not Taken 

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.
Somedays the path we have taken as Christians is lonely and very few are accompanying us on the road, but when we reflect back on the decisions we made to follow Jesus, it makes the biggest impact in our life.

Copyright Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Colorado Springs, Colorado

About Elizabeth Haarberg

Elizabeth Williams Haarberg lives in Kearney, Nebraska with her husband and four children. She has lived in many places but has found her true home with God.
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