I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;
But I 've left the Past in God's keeping,—the Future
His mercy shall clear;
And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.


Not knowing, published in The Congregationalist, March 1869, and set to music as a hymn by Philip Paul Bliss in the 1870s. Thomas Corts, Glimpses of Christian History Presents More Stories: Blessed Bliss, 2007.

Mary Gardiner Brainard Quotes

I see not a step before me as I tread on another year; But I 've left the Past in God's keeping,—the Future His mercy shall clear; And what looks...

I see not a step before me as I tread on another year; But I 've left the Past in God's keeping,—the Future His mercy shall clear; And what looks...

I see not a step before me as I tread on another year; But I 've left the Past in God's keeping,—the Future His mercy shall clear; And what looks...

I see not a step before me as I tread on another year; But I 've left the Past in God's keeping,—the Future His mercy shall clear; And what looks...