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  • God Knows - a Famous Poem in Full

    HT Angela for this one which moves us from the (rightly) truncated form used by George VI at the start of war to a version more fitting for life as we experience it now (copyright unknown, formatting as per web so may be inaccurate)...

     

    God Knows

    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 out 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.

     

    God knows. His will

    Is best. The stretch of years

    Which wind ahead, so dim

    To our imperfect vision,

    Are clear to God. Our fears

    Are premature. In Him

    All time hath full provision.

    Then rest; until

    God moves to lift the veil

    From our impatient eyes,

    When, as the sweeter features

    Of life's stern face we hail,

    Fair beyond all surmise,

    God's thought around His creatures

    Our minds shall fill.

    Minnie Haskins, sourced from here

     

  • Happy New Year!

    Barring the worst/best efforts of St Eroid, I will tucked up in bed as 2010 ends and 2011 begins, so this is advance posted.

    I hope and I pray that 2011 will be a good one for you, characterised by

    • fullness of life
    • unconditional love
    • belly laughs
    • unquenchable faith
    • tenacious hope
    • irrepressible joy
    • loyal friends and relations

    None of us knows what shape 2011 will take, but we can be assured that the Triune God will share it with us, blessing us in surprising ways and refusing to be defined by our understanding or expectations.  May that God bless you all... and a big e-hug from me!