Published on the New Year in 2011…I love it, so I included it here again…
My Facebook friend, Glenne, sent me this poem. I loved it so much that I wanted to include it here, along with her introduction.
This poem is written on the George VI and Queen Elizabeth Memorial in Windsor Castle, because the King read it as part of his speech in 1939, at the beginning of WWII.
Still relevant I think, especially re: walking the labyrinth.
“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.”