Amy Carmichael Takes Us Into Life's Darker Woods

There are darker woods than illness, poverty, bereavement.  

• There is the gloom wrapped about every thought of some catastrophe that has shaken the fabric of life to its foundations.  
• There has not yet been full recovery from that shock.  

Broken hearts are everywhere in this world of tragedies: 

• "How many there are, like the king of Samaria, wearing hidden sackcloth.  
• Outside the gay purple robe which, rent, reveals the secret.  
• The people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh."

But we can find the way of victory over our broken hearts: 

• One word is worth all the others, "Thy will, not mine, be done."  
• To will what God wills brings peace.

As I rest my heart upon what I know 

• (the certainty of the ultimate triumph of good), 
• leaving what I do not know to the Love that has led me all my life long, 
• the peace of God enters into me and abides.

Adapted Excerpt From 

Gold By Moonlight by Amy Carmichael