The Path I Feared (continued)...

Hello ladies,
Please take time to read the previous post before this one! This is just a brief continuation of the one before. I wanted to let you read a poem by George McDonald called 'The Path I Feared'.

I said, "Let me walk in the field."

He said, "No; walk in the town."

I said, "There are no flowers there."

He said, "No flowers, but a crown."

I said, "But the skies are black, there is nothing but noise and din."

And He wept as He sent me back.

"There is more," He said, "there is sin."

I said, "But the air is thick and fogs are veiling the sun."

He answered, "Yet souls are sick, and souls in the dark undone."

I said, "I shall miss the light and friends will miss me, they say."

He answered, "Choose tonight if I am to miss you, or they."

I pleaded for time to be given.

He said, "Is it hard to decide? It will not seem hard in Heaven to have followed the steps of your Guide."

I cast one look at the fields, then set my face to the town;

He said: "My child, do you yield? Will you leave the flowers for the crown?"

Then into His hand went mine;

And into my heart came He;

And I walk in a light Divine,

The path I feared to see.

Yielding to my Guide,

Lori