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Robert Frost poem

Taking the road not taken

Posted February 13th, 2020

I hadn’t read this poem in years and so, when a friend recently included it in an email, it brought back memories. It was during my Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) in Manhattan that I was introduced to the work of Robert Frost. My supervisor, realizing — as I did — that I didn’t have a call to chaplaincy work, but was there to fulfill my presbytery’s ordination requirement, would refer to the poetry of Frost during our weekly check-ins as I grappled with where God was leading me. “The Road Not Taken” was his favorite poem to quote.