At The Gate Of The Year

I found this poem somewhere the other day, and it really means a lot to me as I venture off into this year of internship. It's just beautiful in general, but as I look outward, nervous and excited about what lies ahead, about what will be revealed to me about myself, my ministry, my vocation, it gives me perspective.  Enjoy!

At the Gate of the Year
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."
And he replied:
"Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God.  That shall be better to you 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 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.