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On the wall of my mother-in-law\u2019s bedroom in Louisville, Kentucky, hung a framed quotation in Gothic script:<\/p>\n

I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: \u201cGive me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.\u201d And he replied: \u201cGo 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

When I first went to Louisville to meet my new in-laws, I would step into that room, read these lines by the poet Minnie Louise Haskins, and puzzle over them.<\/p>\n

Although my father\u2019s father had been a Unitarian minister, my parents never went to church, or even talked about religion. The only one in the family who did was Daddy\u2019s sister Helen, who attended the austere red-brick Unitarian church on East 35th Street in Manhattan, where I often went with her.<\/p>\n

I was only a visitor at Aunt Helen\u2019s church, but whenever I had to fill in a blank under Religion, <\/em>I would write \u201cUnitarian.\u201d<\/p>\n

The words in that frame seemed to me the embodiment of everything Unitarians rejected. An anthropomorphic deity (how could anyone hold the \u201chand\u201d of God!). Blind faith (why should being led around in the dark be better than stepping out in the clear light of reason?).<\/p>\n

Such outmoded religious notions, Aunt Helen had assured me, were believed only by ignorant people.<\/p>\n

My mother-in-law, Helen Sherrill, however, was not ignorant. An author and authority on early childhood development, she must have thought this enigmatic quote important to hang it where her eyes would light on it first thing each morning.<\/p>\n

Later, when Mother and Dad Sherrill moved to New York City, the Haskins quotation hung on the wall of their bedroom there. It hangs today in my bedroom.<\/p>\n

In the years since I first read those words, I\u2019ve become an adherent of that \u201coutmoded\u201d religion. And I\u2019ve come to see in Haskins\u2019s prose-poem the traveler\u2019s guide to heaven.<\/p>\n

Our hand in his is, of course, a poet\u2019s way of expressing trust. And why should dark be better for our journey than daylight? Because, I\u2019ve come to feel, holding our hand is God\u2019s delight.<\/p>\n

Oh, there are practical reasons too, why he cannot banish the darkness here and now. Light\u2013his Light\u2013 would show us too much. In 1991, an operation was performed on a blind man named Virgil. For 45 years, neurologist Oliver Sacks reported, Virgil had functioned effectively as a sightless person.<\/p>\n

Suddenly able to see, he was overwhelmed by a torrent of impressions bombarding a brain that could not process them. He became disoriented, listless, miserable. When an illness destroyed his new-won vision, Virgil welcomed the return of blindness.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, at last,\u201d wrote Dr. Sacks, \u201cVirgil is allowed to not see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allowed to not see…If we were suddenly able to see as God sees\u2013the entire past, the entire future, the ultimate consequence of each thing we do, each word we speak\u2013perhaps we too would be unable to cope. Perhaps in his compassion God must <\/em>keep us in the dark.<\/p>\n

But I think his hand-holding goes far beyond mere necessity. When our kids were teenagers, a Beatles song throbbed through our house: \u201cI want to hold your h-a-a-a-nd.\u201d I believe God sings the same refrain. I think he longs to keep us company, to walk at our side, hand in hand.<\/p>\n

I think he doesn\u2019t reveal the future to us not only because we couldn\u2019t handle it, but because if he did we\u2019d drop his hand and race ahead alone. \u201cThanks! I see how to get there now!\u201d<\/p>\n

Getting there, <\/em>even to some noble goal, is not as important to God, I suspect, as the journey in companionship with him. It\u2019s relationship, not achievement, that he wants.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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