"Footprints In The Sand........."
One night I had a dream. 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 belonging 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 noticed that many times along the path of my life there was only one set of footprints. I also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest 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'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 need you most you would leave me?"
The Lord replied; "My precious Lolita, I Love You and would never leave you. Lolita my dear, during your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then Lolita that I carried you!"
by Mary Stevenson
Revised by Lolita Jackson
Sometimes life will happen and we must accept life on life's terms. In doing so, we may find that we're alone and we may also be feeling lonely. It's during those times in our lives that we can rest assured in knowing that God is carrying us to the other side of the troubling times that hath so easily beset us. I'm learning to take advantage of the times that I may be alone and in that time and space I'm finding out that I'm better equipped to hear what God is saying to me. God's word says; "My sheep know my voice and the voice of a stranger they will not follow!" The only way we can truly know if it's our heavenly father or not is to make allowances for the solitude. In that space we will find wisdom for direction, peace for turmoil, and tranquility for endurance!
In Solidarity,
LaLa Lolita Lovely
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly.... who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while Daring Greatly!"
~Theodore Roosevelt
