The Road Less Traveled

This past couple weeks have been more than busy, between work, getting ready for school, and Life Teen Starting back up again, along with an Underclassmen Bible Study I am taking the lead and starting on with some great friends. We have a retreat coming up, and conformation going on...I have been thinking lately about the Road Not taken. It is a Poem by one of my favorites 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;	5
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,	10
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.	15
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.

I love the message of that poem. You never know, some times that road that we seldom see taken is the better one to take.  There is a tough choice of our teen leaders and some retreatens from on of our Local Schools, Winter Formal and Our Spring/winter retreat are the same weekend. I feel for our Seniors and I understand the struggle.  My Senior year winter formal, or My last retreat I could experience. 

I feel that in that situation I probably would of chosen retreat, but it would of been a huge struggle. I think I would of also gotten a lot of encouragement from Michelle to go on retreat. The way I see it is yes memories are important, but don't forget what you have learned in past years. You want to finish, Finish the race.  You might have bought your dress, Ironed your suite, ordered the corsage or boutonniere. But don't let all of that make your decision. This is YOUR choice! This is apart of discernment. Take it from me, some one who has gone the distance; Who ran with you when you were younger.  Just don't be afraid to take the Road less traveled,  I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

~Bobby