Walk Before Him
Robert Frost is my favorite poet. This is one of his better known poems, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”
Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound’s the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.
At age 99, Abraham was called by God with these words – “I am God Almighty; walk before me, & be blameless.” So Abraham & Sarah walked before God for the rest of their lives; Sarah living until she was 127 & Abraham until he was 175. As someone said on Sunday, he feels like 99 sometimes; still we are called, even in these troubling times, to walk before our God & to be blameless. Each of us needs to walk our individual journey of faith for we have “miles to go before {we} sleep.”
