I just couldn’t keep this to myself any longer. Here’s hoping this is the correct forum.
In the poem Footsteps in the Sand by Mary Stevenson, the narrator, who is walking along the beach with the Lord and reviewing scenes from her life, notices that during the most trying periods of her life there had only been one set of footprints in the sand. Why, she wonders, had the Lord not been there for her when she needed Him most?
The answer, revealed in the spoiler box below, may surprise you:
It was because those were the times when the Lord carried her (hence only the one set of prints)!
Okay, a proposition. Though schmaltzy and egregious to the point of glurginess, “Footprints” does say something worthwhile, and not necessarily religious in nature:
Perception does not always equate to reality, and in particular when an emotional “down” is involved. Sometimes one just cannot see the support that actually is proferred.
My apologies for mixing up the forum. I actually meant for the OP to be in MPSIMS – not meant to be a debate, too dumb for CS. I saw this poem on a co-worker’s desk this afternoon. I hadn’t seen it in a while, and for some reason it struck me as particularly silly today, “surprise” ending and all (no offense intended). I should have made the tone more clear.
Anyway, I will now retreat back to my cave in Lurkdom.
