Have you ever driven down a country road just to see where it led?
Over eighty years ago, for entertainment people would take Sunday drives. My grandparents drove past a gravel road on these Sunday rides, and my mother would always wonder what was down that gravel road. Little did she know at the time she would live on that very road for the last 75 years of her life. Fate has a funny way of repeating itself when my husband and I went in search of a haunted house, out in the country, down a gravel road. I have lived in that old house for the last 46 years of my life. Neither of our destinies were on busy thoroughfares, but down roads less travelled.
What if I had not been raised in the house of my parents where our backyard was the town park complete with a county ditch, (where my siblings and I sacrificed many of our shoes) where we played. What would my life be like now if my husband and I did not live on our little farm, where we raised our six children? What if we had never gone down that road less travelled?
The world offers much on the busy road we call life. But often the best things are found when you don’t follow the crowd down those roads. Stand up for what you believe and see what wonderful things will be at the end of your journey. Don’t be afraid to be your own person, not doing what all the other people you know are expected to do. God has a path in life he wants you to follow, so seek him in prayer so you can have the best journey this life has to offer.
As parents we need to teach our children to seek God for direction in their lives. To live the life that may be less travelled by others, but will lead to a life of fulfillment. Do everything with prayer and supplication. Let them see that in your life as an example.
We as writers love to build excitement by going down roads where the unexpected may lurk. But with careful plotting, all will come out to a great end.
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in there at:
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Matthew 7:13-14