Dear Friends,
Annie Johnson Flint is not a name you likely recognize unless you are a student of 19th century poetry… which I am not. But I have enjoyed her poems and hymns. From the time she lost her parents at age three to spending her last years in a New Jersey sanitarium suffering from a crippling illness, Annie faced each day with a faith reflected in her poetry.
May the following poem by Annie Flint be an encouragement to you as you welcome the year 2020 with a resolution that brings light and encouragement into your lives.
MY RESOLUTION
I won’t look back; God knows the fruitless efforts,
The wasted hours, the sinning, the regrets;
I’ll leave them all with Him who blots the record,
And mercifully forgives and then forgets.
I won’t look forward; God sees all the future,
The road that, short or long, will lead me home,
And He will face with me its every trial
And bear with me the burdens that may come.
But I’ll look up into the face of Jesus,
For there my heart can rest, my fears are stilled;
And there is joy and love, and light for darkness,
And perfect peace, and every hope fulfilled.
The best of 2020 to each of you.
~Wynn
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.” Isaiah 43:18-19