Robert Frost knew about the time- tested principle of roads. The traveler is always presented with more than one, but he can only take one at a time.
If only I had enlisted, if only I had taken that person for a life partner, if only I had never smoked, if only I had eaten better, if only I had taken education seriously… the list is endless.
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;
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.
“If” is a two-letter word that is more soul-searching than any word in the Bible.
Hebrews 3:15
while it is said, “Today if you hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts, as when they provoked Me.”
Hardness is the wrong choice and has eternal consequences. You take that road and you will always be looking back with regret.
Think about it.
Gary