I first saw this from a blogger, Shari Abbott. She explains this poem very well. She talks about the poem with its later name, “The Gate of the Year.” She explains that it was “originally titled “God Knows.” The poem was written by Minnie Louise Haskins (1875-1957) and was published in 1908 as part of a collection of poems in a book titled The Desert. The poem was later popularized with a new name, The Gate of the Year, taken from the poem’s first line.”
Read and meditate. Best advice I could give you about how to Live Well.
“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. And He led me towards the hills
and the breaking of day in the lone East.
So heart be still:
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.
Originally titled “God Knows.” The poem was written by Minnie Louise Haskins (1875-1957) and was published in 1908 as part of a collection of poems in a book titled The Desert. The poem was later popularized with a new name, The Gate of the Year, taken from the poem’s first line.