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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 16, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 47.

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"NOT AS I WILL."

BLINDFOLDED and alone I stand, With unknown threshholds on each hand; The darkness deepens as I grope, Afraid to fear, afraid to hope. Yet this one thing I learn to know Each day more surely as I go, That doors are opened, ways are made, Burdens are lifted, or are laid By some great law unseen and still, Unfathomed purpose to fulfill, "Not as I will."
Blindfolded and alone I wait; Loss seems too bitter, gain too late; Too heavy burdens in the load, Too few the helpers on the road; And joy is weak, and grief is strong, And years and days so long, so long! Yet this one thing I learn to know Each day more surely as I go, That I am glad the good and ill By changeless laws are ordered still, "Not as I will."
"Not as I will;" the sound grows sweet Each time my lips the words repeat. "Not as I will;" the darkness feels More safe than light when this thought steals Like whispered voice to calm and bless All unrest and all loneliness. "Not as I will;" because the One Who loved us first and best has gone Before us on the road, and still For us must all His love fulfill. Not as we will.