Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: “Here am I.”
“If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, an if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your night will become like the noonday.
The Lord will guide you always; He will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.”
Isaiah 58:9-11

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I am taking a poetry class in college and I found Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken” to have many words of wisdom for our lives. Here is my paper on it and feel free to Google the poem to read it and understand the context of the paper.
At face value, Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken” is about a person who comes to a crossroads and decides to take the road less taken. As with most poems, the face value of the piece is not the deepest interpretation. Frost used nature to describe deeper reflections, and this particular poem has life lessons in it.
Frost wrote that he was, “sorry I could not travel both.” He looked as far down the roads as he could, but that was no indication of the true impact on his travels to the desired destination. He later wrote that he would travel the other road another day, but “knowing how way leads to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.” He said “this with a sigh,” wondering what the other road held. The road he took had a large impact on his life because, “I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
There are many times during life that we face a crossroads. We decide what school, if any, to go to, who to date, who to break up with, what career fits us, who to hang out with, what parties to go to, where to live, and many more. All of those decisions will have profound implications. A certain college can influence us, a certain party may be harmless while the other may take us in the wrong direction, a career defines our income and sense of fulfillment, and so on. Some weave together, such as friends and colleges may influence our view on partying. Dating leads to the crossroads of whether to break up with that individual or not. These decisions, these roads in our lives, create “what if” moments. Frost wondered what the other road held for him, and the road he settled on made all of the difference. The same applies to our lives, what if we had stayed with so and so, what if we had chosen a different college, what if we had partied like some of our friends instead of following the Christian paths. Our lives may have been better, but they may have been worse.
This poem’s concept can also be looked at from a more Christian perspective. The crossroads in our lives is whether we follow Christ’s example or follow our sinful desires. Does it really make much of a difference if we smoke a cigarette, drink a beer, or participate in adulterated activities? Sometimes picking sinful roads doesn’t lead down a horrible path and take us from our destination of Heaven, but other times we are in for a long and rocky road that may lead us to Hell instead. Sometimes we may get back on Heaven’s road, but it takes a long and rough detour. The quickest way to paradise with our Lord and Savior is the road less taken, but no one completely stays on it, and very few stick to it for the majority of the journey.
Frost doesn’t say whether or not the road he chose made for an easy journey, and he is not sure what the other road had in store. However, he appears to accept that the road he chose was the behind him and he had to live with that decision. This metaphor is perfect for us as we live our lives; choose wisely because that is the road you have to conquer.

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And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. For those God foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.
Romans 28-30

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This emotional film took me by surprise. I’m a Stephen Baldwin fan, but he’s the only actor I knew in this film. I admit, I went in with a cynical view. I thought “I never heard of this movie, I never heard of the actors, this is going to stink.” However, I watched it anyways because the story sounded good. To my surprise, this may be the sharpest Christian film I have ever seen. The acting was very good, and not just good for a Christian film, but I mean credible. I believed their emotions and they seemed very natural. Shout outs have to go to Stephen Baldwin and K Callan for outstanding performances. I felt their sorrow and I felt their redemption. I also thought Mitchell Jarvis gave a good performance as the jaded youth pastor who was living with some personal demons. The story is great too. The film is based off of a short story by Jerry B. Jenkins and directed by his son Dallas Jenkins. The two did a great job with making the story into a live action film. The pace is a little slow, but with today’s get to the point attention span we have lost the art of good story telling, and this film attempts to bring that back. They took their time, set up good characters that we care about, and then executed it with a powerful punchline. This movie is a wonderful story of redemption and how life is worth living even if we don’t see why. It’s powerful, emotional, and sure to show the beauty of the Christmas season. May God bless you this Christmas and remember the reason for the season.
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