New Year 2012
Welcome to a New Year, to 2012.
I dont know what it will bring for you, or for me, but I pray for all God's great blessing.
God's will for us is clear in the Bible, we are to rejoice in all things, pray without ceasing, give thanks, be sanctified [made holy] and to do good works. (1Thessalonians 5:16-18, 1Thess.4:3, 1Peter 2:15)
Whatever lies ahead, take God's hand and go there together.
"The Gate of the Year" is the popular name given to a poem by Minnie Louise Haskins. The title given to it by the author was "God Knows". She studied and then taught at the London School of Economics in the first half of the twentieth century.
The poem was widely acclaimed as inspirational, reaching its first mass audience in the early days of the Second World War. Its words remained a source of comfort to the Queen for the rest of her life, and she had its words engraved on brass plaques and fixed to the gates of the King George VI Memorial Chapel at Windsor Castle, where the King was interred. The Queen Mother was also buried here in 2002, and the words of "The Gate of the Year" were read out at her state funeral.
I dont know what it will bring for you, or for me, but I pray for all God's great blessing.
God's will for us is clear in the Bible, we are to rejoice in all things, pray without ceasing, give thanks, be sanctified [made holy] and to do good works. (1Thessalonians 5:16-18, 1Thess.4:3, 1Peter 2:15)
Whatever lies ahead, take God's hand and go there together.
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.
"The Gate of the Year" is the popular name given to a poem by Minnie Louise Haskins. The title given to it by the author was "God Knows". She studied and then taught at the London School of Economics in the first half of the twentieth century.
[edit] Background
The poem, published in 1908, was part of a collection titled The Desert. It caught the public attention and the popular imagination, when Queen Elizabeth handed a copy to her husband, King George VI, and he quoted it in his 1939 Christmas broadcast to the British Empire.The poem was widely acclaimed as inspirational, reaching its first mass audience in the early days of the Second World War. Its words remained a source of comfort to the Queen for the rest of her life, and she had its words engraved on brass plaques and fixed to the gates of the King George VI Memorial Chapel at Windsor Castle, where the King was interred. The Queen Mother was also buried here in 2002, and the words of "The Gate of the Year" were read out at her state funeral.
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