“ I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year
'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.'
And he replied, 'Go into the darkness
and put your hand into the hand of God
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way!'
So I went forth and finding the Hand of God
Trod gladly into the night
He led me towards the hills
And the breaking of day in the lone East.
So heart be still!
What need our human life to know,
If God hath comprehension?
In all the dizzy strife of things
Both high and low,
God hideth his intention ..."
'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.'
And he replied, 'Go into the darkness
and put your hand into the hand of God
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way!'
So I went forth and finding the Hand of God
Trod gladly into the night
He led me towards the hills
And the breaking of day in the lone East.
So heart be still!
What need our human life to know,
If God hath comprehension?
In all the dizzy strife of things
Both high and low,
God hideth his intention ..."
Many of us will have heard the above words at some time in our life, written by Minnie Louise Haskins in 1908. Much later to become famous by King George VI reading it as part of his first Christmas message to the nation at the start of the Second World War.
At the start of this new, uncertain and unfathomed year, may your hand remain in the hand of God!
