*One night a man
[…] dreamed
he was walking along
the beach with the Lord.
[…] **he noticed
two sets of footprints in the
sand; one belonging to him, and
the other to the Lord. *
*[…] 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.
[…] **it happened at the very
lowest and saddest times in his life. *
*[…] 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 is
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 I would
never leave you. During your times of
trial and suffering, when you saw only
one set of footprints, it was then that I
carried you.”
Margaret Fishback Powers
Nul besoin d’être profondément croyant pour être touché par la beauté et la douceur de ces vers qui pansent l’âme…