ONE NIGHT A MAN HAD A DREAM, HE DREAMED HE WAS WALKING ALONG THE BEACH WITH THE LORD. ACROSS THE SKY FLASHED SCENES FROM HIS LIFE. FOR EACH SCENE, HE NOTICED TWO SETS OF FOOT PRINTS IN THE SAND: ONE BELONGED TO HIM AND THE OTHER TO THE LORD. WHEN THE LAST SCENE OF HIS LIFE FLASHED BEFORE HIM, HE LOOKED BACK AT THE FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND. HE NOTICED THAT MANY TIMES ALONG THE PATH OF HIS LIFE THERE WAS ONLY ONE SET OF FOOTPRINTS, HE ALSO NOTICED THAT IT HAPPENED AT THE VERY LOWEST AND SADDEST TIMES IN HIS LIFE. THIS REALLY BOTHERED HIMAND HE QUESTIONED THE LORD ABOUT IT. 'LORD, YOU SAID THAT ONCE I DECIDED TO FOLLOW YOU, YOU'D WALK WITH ME ALL THE WAY, BUT I HAVE NOTICED THAT DURING THE MOST TROUBLESOME TIMES IN MY LIFE THERE WAS ONLY ONE SET OF FOOTPRINTS, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY, WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST, YOU WOULD LEAVE 'ME: ' THE LORD REPLIED, 'MY PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS CHILD, I LOVE YOU AND WOULD NEVER LEAVE YOU. DURING YOUR TIMES OF TRIAL AND SUFFERING, WHEN YOU SAW ONLY ONE SET OF FOOTPRINTS, IT WAS I THAT CARRIED YOU'.
IN CHRISTIAN LOVE TO ALL WHO READ THIS POEM
CHERYL MCBRIDE
MAY THE LORD WATCH BETWEEN ME AND THEE WHEN WE ARE ABSENT ONE FROM ANOTHER GEN 31; 49

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