Hinds' Feet on High Places

‘Hinds’ Feet on High Places’ by Hannah Hurnard, is a dramatic allegory telling the journey we each must take before having the ability to live on high places. Throughout the story, the emotions and struggles of our nature are personified. It is a story of endurance, persistence, and reliance on God, which has inspired millions of people to become sure-footed in their faith even when facing the rockiest of life’s terrain.

Much-Afraid had been in the service of the Chief Shepherd, whose great flocks were pastured down in the Valley of Humiliation. She lived with her friends and fellow workers Mercy and Peace in a tranquil little white cottage in the village of Much-Trembling. She loved her work and desired intensely to please the Chief Shepherd, but happy as she was in most ways, she was conscious of several things which hindered her in her work and caused her much secret distress and shame.

Here is the allegorical tale of Much-Afraid, an every-woman searching for guidance from God to lead her to a higher place.

Hannah Hurnard (1905-1990) was a twentieth century Christian author, best known for her allegory Hinds' Feet on High Places. She was born in Colchester, England, to Quaker parents. She graduated from Ridgelands Bible College of Great Britain in 1926. In 1932 she became an independent missionary, moving to Haifa, Israel. Her work in Israel lasted fifty years, although she would later maintain a home in England as well.