Redeemer Lutheran & St. Theodore’s

By Lisa Rotchford

Reverend

Minnie Louise Haskins wrote a poem titled “God Knows” in 1908. The poem is most famous for its preamble, read to the world by King George VI in his 1939 Christmas broadcast as the world faced the uncertainty of WWII. As we face uncertainty in our own time, the words ring true for us: 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.

As we welcome the New Year, and the coming of the Christmas Star of Epiphany on Jan. 6, may we remember God goes with us, wherever we go.