My hunch is that most educated American adults have heard Robert Frost’s poem about two diverging roads in a yellow
woods, and his decision to take one that made the difference. It is an example of classic literature that inspires careful
thought and intention.
It’s not always easy to know which
path to take. And yet choices define us
and shape fate – even our eternal destiny.
Sometimes it seems self-absorption can diminish what the
ancients took so seriously. Jesus fulfilled hundreds of years of prophecy, and came
into the world at Christmas to lead us on the path that takes us home! St. Ephriam in the 4th century said it well:
“Thou, O Christ our Savior, hast become for me the path of
life which leads to the Father. There is but one path, and
it is my joy, and at the end of it is the heavenly kingdom."
-St. Ephraim the Syrian (306-373 AD)
“Thou, O Christ our Savior, hast become for me the path of
life which leads to the Father. There is but one path, and
it is my joy, and at the end of it is the heavenly kingdom."
-St. Ephraim the Syrian (306-373 AD)
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