POEM
Footprints
One night I dreamed I was walking
along the beach with the Lord,
many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.
In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand.
Sometimes there were two sets of footprints.
Other times there was only one.
This bothered me because I noticed
during the low periods of my life when I was
suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat,
I could see only one set of footprints.
So I said to the Lord, you promised me,
Lord, that if I followed you,
you would walk with me always.
But I noticed during the most trying periods
of my life there has only been
one set of prints in the sand.
Why, when I needed you most,
have you not been there for me?
The Lord replied,
the times when you have seen only one set of footprints
it was then that I carried you.
Poem read at the funeral service