Scott Peck became famous when he wrote his first book entitled The Road Less Traveled.  The first sentence in that book is a perceptive commentary on life — simple and direct: “Life is difficult.”

For some, that is an understatement. For all who are alive and aware, it is an experienced truth. Life is difficult.

Jesus would concur. Listen to him in verse 24 from our scripture lesson: “Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able....”

A long time before Peck, way back in 1930, the poet, Robert Frost, coined the metaphor, “The Road Less Traveled.” Listen to him:

“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 unde…