Goodbye 2009

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 the light

and safer than a known way!”

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by M. Louise Haskins.
King George VI started his 1939 Chrismas address
to the nation with this quote.

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