The Gate of the Year 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. -Minnie Louise Haskins ( this is an excerpt, the poem itself is much longer and was read by King George VI in his 1939 Christmas broadcast) In Search of God I went to the Holy Land, to Mecca & to Rome. I visited many churches, temples & mosques. I climbed the tallest mountain. I looked in the books of an old Eastern religion to no avail. I opened my heart & that is where he was. -Rumi