Friday, March 30, 2012

And that has made all the difference


I received a call for help from a dear family member. 
She has played a pivotal part in my spiritual life for many years. 
Life is not an easy journey and often we find ourselves disconnected.
My journey has often taken detours to places that are unplanned. 
These experiences have made the difference between the ordinary and the extraordinary. 
While speaking on the phone, I felt connection to my travel companions and guides. 
We’ve traveled together on many adventures ... 
...always with a profound effect on my life.
These beings from my spiritual family are often unseen, but their presence is always felt.
With their help, I will help her reconnect. 
I never fear when we journey together.
Each trip I take adds a new volume to the experience of a lifetime.
“And that has made all the difference.”
The Road Not Taken
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 marked 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