Unfamiliar Territory

 

And I will lead the blind

in a way

  that they do not know,

in paths

  that they have not known

        I will guide them.

I will turn the darkness

 before them into light,

the rough places

    into level ground.

These are the things I do,

and I do not forsake them.

          Isaiah 42. 16

(I may not know

what I am heading into,

or even where I am,

but the unknown to me,

  is not unknown to God.

He helps us see in the dark

   in unfamiliar territory.

God leads us through,

gives us just enough light

  for the next proximate step,

and holds us tight.

He is not about to

  abandon us now.)

O LORD,

When we can't see our way,

   be our light.

In the familiar or unknown,

  direct our hearts

that we may

    follow You into it.

Empower us

 to walk differently

and respond in a way

   that points others to You.