the gate of the year

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.