“Doth not he see my ways, and count all my
steps?”
Job 31:4
I saw this image recently and I found it apropos.
This time of year, after all.
Roads. Think about just how many of them you and I
have traveled in our lives, thus far. How many millions of steps have we taken?
And how many of those roads were painful? Lonely? Frustrating? Heartbreaking?
Yeah.
So, it can be all the more daunting to entertain
taking any further steps as the future awaits. The beginning of a new year? It
can seem too overwhelming. Yes, it’s a scary, difficult looking road,
symbolically, trudging through the snow, alone, on a wintery night.
And how many of us really want to take that road?
Still, we have to choose. Like the famous poem goes…
“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.”
“The
Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost
No matter what road we take, no matter what steps we
choose, The Most High is there.
“When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straightened;
and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.”
Proverbs 4:12
It may feel like taking cold comfort in that. But
dare to accept it as you take that next scary step in the unfamiliar future.
Happy New Year!
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© 2019 by Sheryle Cruse
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