Foot Prints

One night I dreamed I was walking on the beach alone

when suddenly I saw this man in a long white robes.

He had peaceful eyes and a beard,

and he was walking right towards me.

I didn't recognize the man, and started thinking how odd

it was for this stranger to just approach me

But as the man grew nearer to me,

something familiar tugged at my heart.

There was something oddly familiar about him.

As the man approached me,

I suddenly realized who he was,

and my eyes filled with tears as I hit my knees at his feet.

For I saw the holes in his hands and in between

the crisscrossed straps of where his sandals did meet.

This man was our own sweet Jesus, the same

who gave his life for me and you.

and I knew it in a minute when his eyes met mine to.

He offered me his hand, but I was to ashamed to put my hand in his,

For how could a sinner like me be worthy to even touch his robes, more less his hand,

I felt like a child that hadn't studied for an important quiz.

He told me, give me your hand child, it's perfectly ok.

Rest you head on my shoulders, and leave your burdens there,

I've come to take care of you as always.

I stood up and wrapped my arms around his neck, and cried like a baby.

I said, " Jesus, I don't feel worthy of your Love, and I don't mean maybe."

Then in the sky my life begin to play right before my eyes.

It made me sick and ashamed of myself at some points for things I had

done, and at some points I really began to cry.

And then at some point I became painfully aware,

That in the sand there was one set of footprints there.

Then where there was once tears, I became confused inside.

Query replaced the tears that I'd been crying.

"Why is it Lord, I asked , when I seemed to be crying,

you know Lord there were times when I felt like I was dying,

Is it when I really, truly needed someone to care,

That it's only those times I see only one set of footprints there?"

" And in the other times when I seemed to be happy, and be all smiles,

there were always two sets the whole while?"

He sweetly smiled at me and said: " In the times when you see two sets of footprints there,

It was those times that I've seen you grow and learn to care."

"You was learning to walk, and you still could not see, so I stood beside you to steady you there,

As you grew in my peace and Love for others, and truly learned to care.

"In times of troubles when you faced your trials,

And you felt alone the whole dark mile,

and you could only see one set of footprints in the sand,

it was those times that I carried you in my arms and my hands."

"To carry you close, and to hold you near,

To cradle you in my arms as you are my child, and be a Father to you Dear."

"Then I noticed at one point I said, when there were two sets of footprints in the sand Lord,

That two paths became like one, unlike they ever had been before."

"He said it was then my child that you had grown so big, and strong, and true,

That you began to walk in my footsteps, and you could walk in my shoes."

Jesus then took my face in his palms and said, " But never at any point was you ever alone,

For I am always with you, even when I was sitting by the Father on his throne."

"And I have always loved you, and I have always cared,

But it was when you began to fill my footprints, that I knew you was totally aware.

Of how the world is, and how it will be as my world for you comes,

And how much towards that life you've grown and learned to truly care,

And of how proud my pride for you has grown, as you've learned to walk in my shoes everywhere."

April 20, 2007

Midi playing: You Will Never Walk Alone

Foot Prints

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