Reflecting on a new year
In this time of reflecting back and looking ahead, a few lines from Frances Ridley Havergal's new year verses:
One year less
Of wisely-ordered loss
Of sorrow and of weariness
Conflict and cross.
One year more
Of mercies ever new
Of love in never-failing store,
Faithful and true.
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The future! who may lift the veil
And read its yet unwritten tale?
But sorrow and joy alike we leave
In the Hand that doeth all things well,
And calmly from that Hand receive
All that each coming year may tell.
We would not ask of life or death,
It shall be as the Master saith.
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So, we rest in God, knowing that throughout the past year he has proved faithful. And we look with both faith and hope to a year of his kind care, knowing that he loves us as his very own!
One year less
Of wisely-ordered loss
Of sorrow and of weariness
Conflict and cross.
One year more
Of mercies ever new
Of love in never-failing store,
Faithful and true.
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The future! who may lift the veil
And read its yet unwritten tale?
But sorrow and joy alike we leave
In the Hand that doeth all things well,
And calmly from that Hand receive
All that each coming year may tell.
We would not ask of life or death,
It shall be as the Master saith.
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So, we rest in God, knowing that throughout the past year he has proved faithful. And we look with both faith and hope to a year of his kind care, knowing that he loves us as his very own!
posted by Janice Van Eck at 11:23 AM
1 Comments:
Hiya!
Wow! That certainly is an encouraging thought! Sometimes a year ahead of things to accomplish may seem... daunting... But Havergal certainly seems to have had the right mind-set for the start of a new year! "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." I think that's going to be my word for the year!
Christina R.V
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