God Knows

This poem was on a card I received from friends. In fact, my dad's best friend from Kindergarten. He and his wife also sent one to my mom.

The words were written by Minnie Louse Haskins in 1908 and it was quoted by King George VI in a radio broadcast to the Empire on Christmas day, 1939 on the eve of the Battle of Britain as England stood alone against the armed might of Hitler's Nazi war machine.

...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!"

And he replied:
"Go out into the darkness and
Put your hand into the Hand of God,
That shall be to you better than a 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 the day in the lone East.

Be strong, prevail, seek truth.