Monday Meditation: Light After Darkness

 

"You have turned my mourning into dancing for me;
You have put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness."
(Psalm 30:11)

Renewal

(2012)

Amanda Kuykendall

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Light after darkness, gain after loss,

Strength after weakness, crown after cross;

Sweet after bitter, hope after fears,

Home after wandering, praise after tears.

Sheaves after sowing, sun after rain,

Sight after mystery, peace after pain;

Joy after sorrow, calm after blast,

Rest after weariness, sweet rest to last.

Near after distant, gleam after gloom,

Love after loneliness, life after tomb;

After long agony, rapture of bliss,

Right was the pathway, leading to this.

"Light After Darkness"
(1879)
Frances Ridley Havergal
(1836-1879)
English Christian hymn writer and poetess