The Paths We Choose
LDS Living Podcasts
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5 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Eric and Chris were best friends and drinking buddies during and after high school and while Chris was a member of the Church, religion was definitely the farthest thing from their minds. When a personal crisis led Eric toward God, his lifelong friendship with Chris and their shared experiences years before showed them both that the path back to the Savior can look very different from the way you might expect.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, Corinne here. Before we get started with today's episode, I just wanted to take a minute |
| 0:05.2 | to sincerely thank you for sharing your experiences with this podcast with your friends and your family |
| 0:11.1 | and for taking the time to write a review. We read every single one and if I'm being totally |
| 0:16.9 | honest with you sometimes when we're having a rough day, we might read them more than once for |
| 0:21.8 | some moral support. We couldn't be more honored to help share the stories, your stories that |
| 0:27.1 | transform us and lead us to Jesus Christ. So thank you so much again for all that you do for us |
| 0:32.8 | and for sharing those reviews. We appreciate it. |
| 0:40.7 | Welcome to This Is the Gospel, an LDS living podcast where we feature real stories from real people |
| 0:46.1 | who are practicing and living their faith every day. I'm your host Corinne Lee. |
| 0:51.2 | There's this famous poem by Robert Frost called The Road Not Taken. Now wait, |
| 0:56.4 | before you turn this episode off because I just said the word poem, hear me out. It won't be painful. |
| 1:00.9 | I promise. I think. Anyway, that poem gets thrown around pretty often when people are talking about |
| 1:07.3 | the decisions that we make in our life and the consequences of those decisions. And most of us have |
| 1:12.3 | heard the final lines of that poem that go, two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less |
| 1:19.2 | traveled by and that has made all the difference. But before Goodall brother Frost got to that part |
| 1:25.6 | of the poem, he actually penned these lines. I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages |
| 1:32.2 | and ages hence. And I can always hear that sigh in my head at full volume because I know what that |
| 1:40.1 | sigh is all about. Decision making is exhausting and it's a little bit fraught. And when we can finally |
| 1:48.0 | see that fork in the road in our rearview mirror, we are sometimes left with some lingering regret |
| 1:53.2 | about the road that we didn't take. Well, in today's episode, we have a story that explores the way |
| 1:58.7 | the paths we choose affect our lives and the lives of the people around us for good or for ill. |
| 2:04.4 | Our story comes from two friends, Chris, who was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of |
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