Lectio Divina

For this post I decided to do my own Lectio Divina on a poem that could be spiritually related, and at the end I tried to look a little beyond and before the text.

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

-Robert Frost

Lectio: sorry I could not travel both, bent, having perhaps the better claim and that has made all the difference

Meditatio:  Although one way may look better before the bend, it may not always be the best route to choose.

Oratio: “Lord, as I am looking down two paths to take help me to choose the right one.  One may look better than the other at the moment, but I want to take the path you want me to be on.  I can’t see the ending of either one, so I am a little frightful of which to choose.  Make it clear which way you want me to go Lord, and I will wear that path down as I follow it till the end.”

            “In this world full of choices help me to keep on the straight and narrow.  God, in those times where the other road looks so inviting and the world makes it seem as the “better claim” guide me away from it.  Although it may seem like in is the road less traveled to follow you, I know it will make all the difference.  In times where I feel as though I should be ashamed (sigh) or when I doubt, shine your light on the right path.  I want to give a sigh of relieve when it is over.  Always remind me that you are there and others are making that path worn with me.  And after I cross that bend that I can’t see pass, all the glory will be to you for I know you have great things beyond that bend.”