The Road Not Taken

I'm sure most if not all of you have read/heard Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken." I love it, so I'm posting it along with my comments.

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.


How true. In today's world there is so much evil, so much hate, so much filth. It is easy, even in an LDS culture to take the common road: Go to church, say your prayers, casually read your scriptures occasionally, act like the church isn't that important, rebel because you can, clean yourself up, serve a mission, get married in the temple, be an average member of the church who likes some callings and hates others.

To me it all comes down to my faith and testimony in Jesus Christ. Being a "good" member of the church as a teenager is uncool. So what? If this (the gospel) really is true, as I believe it is, then a few people's judgment of me as a "Peter Priesthood" won't mean much on the ultimate judgment day. I wish all teenagers at Viewmont High got this concept. And I also wish it was as easy to live as it is to say. I'm not perfect, just trying.

That's my thought for the day :)