Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

It's time to change directions. It's taken me a couple of months to get to this point but I think that I finally get it - no more swimming upstream. I am exhausted. You sent someone to see me a couple of months ago and they told me what you needed me to do and I've been resisting because I felt that my way was better than the path that you laid out for me. I don't know why I doubted or why I thought that I could do a much better job that you. Today I finally got it and truth be told I'm exhausted cause it's tiring swimming upstream.

I'm putting it all your hands, I'm giving it all to you. I can't do this my way anymore cause my way ain't working, you're going to have to carry me for a while.


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Last 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 belonged to me, the other to the Lord.  



After the last scene of my life flashed before me, I looked back at the footprints in the sand. I noticed that at many times along the path of my life, especially at the very lowest and saddest times, there was only one set of footprints.



This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it.  “Lord, you said once I decided to follow you, You’d walk with me all the way. But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life, there was only one set of footprints. I don’t understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me.” 



The Lord replied, “My son, my precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of suffering, when you could see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.”