Light that cannot be overcome - ever

‘… The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.’ (John 1:5)

John 1:1-18 (Year B: 2^nd Sunday Christmas)

Darkness can be overwhelming. News of conflict, disaster, threats in the world around us can add to our inner unease to create a sense of gloom. We are called to be witnesses to the light. To joy and not sadness. We must wear our faith in our attitude, faces and acts of compassion and care. That is the only way that the world will recognise in us the truth and the light and the life.

In His peace we have resolve and clarity to go forward. The following is a poem cited by the King of England (George VI) during his Christmas Message of 1939. The poem was composed by Minnie Louise Haskins (1876 – 1957).

God Knows

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 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

     Pic: http://anitamathias.com/2013/12/30/said-man-stood-gate-year/

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