This past year was a year of many changes for us: changes in jobs, living situations, schools...it felt like just about everything but family, thankfully. We started the year with a very specific life plan and have ended the year looking deeply into the unknown.
My hubby and I just finished going through the devotional Moments with You, by Dennis and Barbara Rainey (excellent devotional book for couples, by the way!), and the last devotional of the year was thought provoking and quite suitable for our family. You might say it is our family's theme this coming year. The devotional talked of trusting God, in day and night, and quoted the first four lines of a poem, as seen below.
The lines are from the poem "The Gate of the Year", written in 1908 by Minnie Louise Haskins:
And 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.”
“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.”
And He led me towards the hills and the breaking of day in the lone East.
So heart bestill:
What need our little life
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 mind shall fill.
Happy New Year!
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