FOOTPRINTS

TAKE A MOMENT AND REREAD THESE TIMELESS WORDS BY MARGARET FISHBACK POWERS: "ONE NIGHT I DREAMED I WAS WALKING ALONG THE BEACH WITH THE LORD. ACROSS THE SKY FLASHED SCENES FROM MY LIFE. FOR EACH SCENE I NOTICED TWO SETS OF FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND. ONE BELONGED TO ME AND THE OTHER TO THE LORD. WHEN THE LAST SCENE OF MY LIFE FLASHED BEFORE ME, I LOOKED BACK AT THE FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND. I NOTICES THAT MANY TIMES ALONG THE PATH THERE WAS ONLY ONE SET OF FOOTPRINTS. I ALSO NOTICED THAT IT HAPPENED AT THE LOWEST TIMES IN MY LIFE. THIS REALLY BOTHERED ME AND I QUESTIONED THE LORD ABOUT IT. 'LORD, YOU SAID THAT ONCE I DECIDED TO FOLLOW YOU, YOU WOULD WALK WITH ME ALL THE WAY. BUT I NOTICE THAT DURING THE WORST TIMES IN MY LIFE THERE WAS ONLY ONE SET OF FOOTPRINTS. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY IN THE TIMES WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST, YOU SHOULD LEAVE ME.' THE LORD REPLIED, 'MY CHILD, I LOVE YOU AND WOULD NEVER LEAVE YOU DURING YOUR TIMES OF TRIAL AND SUFFERING. WHEN YOU SAW ONLY ONE SET OF FOOTPRINTS...THEY WERE MINE. IT WAS THEN THAT I CARRIED YOU?'"

NEED REASSURANCE? "THE LORD, HE IT IS THAT DOTH GO BEFORE THEE;HE WILL BE WITH THEE, HE WILL NOT FAIL THEE, NEITHER FORSAKE THEE: FEAR NOT" (DT 31:8). NEED MORE REASSURANCE? "FOR HE HATH SAID, I WILL NEVER LEAVE THEE NOR FORSAKE THEE. SO THAT WE MAY BOLDLY SAY, THE IS MY HELPER, AND I WILL NOT FEAR WHAT MAN SHALL DO UNTO ME" (HEB 13:5-6). TODAY YOU'RE ARE NOT ALONE.

GOD IS WITH YOU!!!!!!

THIS POEM REALLY SAYS A LOT. I SOMETIMES I THINK THAT GOD IS NO WHERE IN THIS ADOPTION WITH ME BUT THEN I REALIZE THAT HE IS RIGHT BESIDE ME ALL THE TIME.