Robert Frost is one of my favorite poets. Among his finest words are these:

“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged into a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

Here we are at the threshold of a brand new year. It's not hard to find a seat on the Sunday after Christmas. The crowds have gone home, but like wise men from the East we have come to worship Christ the new-born King. For us, Christmas did not come to pass. It came to stay. There is a text from this ancient visit of Royalty that I want us to ponder today. (Verse 12) “And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they left for their own country by another road." What would it mean for you and me to take a new road home in 2013?

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