Mary Marca
English 113A
English 113A
10/11/2011
Exercise 1
Everyone experiences tough times in his or her lives and they wonder how they are going to get through it. I can relate to the poem "Footprints in the Sand" by Mary Stevenson, and I find it very inspirational because it brings me to realize that throughout those tough times, I am not alone since I have God walking me through it all.
In the poem the speaker has a dream that she is walking on the beach with the Lord. She looks back at scenes from her life and notices that there were two set of footprints on the sand, a pair that belonged to her and the other pair belonged to God. In the last scene, she only saw one set of footprints along the path and that happened to be the lowest and saddest time of her life. She asked God why he had left her alone through those difficult times and he answered that he never left her, instead he carried her through those times of suffering and trial and that's why there was only one set of footprints.
Worrying about things is a problem almost everyone faces. We all know that worrying doesn’t get us anywhere but it’s a bad habit. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed and stressed over certain difficulties I approach, and I start to worry about how I will over come it when instead I should be putting my full trust in God; He is the only one that can get me through it all. God promised that if you believe and follow him He will never leave you, He will carry you through those difficulties that life brings. So we have to stop wasting our time worrying and instead we should start believing.
