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Leave footsteps and finger prints that time will not erase.

Footsteps and Fingerprints
Today at the Sportsplex I was riding on a bicycle and I noticed that as most of the folks finished using a piece of fitness equipment they would take a  spray bottle and spray the handholds and such with a cleaner and then dry it off with a cloth.  As I watched one fellow do a double job I said to myself, “No one will ever be able to prove that you were even here.”  Immediately my mind raced on to recall the story of Footprints in the sand. 

“One night I had a dream. I was walking along the beach with the Lord, and across the skies flashed scenes from my life. In each scene I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand.  One was mine and the other was the Lord’s. When the last scene of my life appeared before me, I looked back at the footprints in the sand, and to my surprise I noticed that many times along the path of my life there was only one set of footprints. And I noticed that it was at the lowest and the saddest times of my life.  I asked the Lord about it: ‘Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you, you would walk with me all the way.  But I noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life there is only one set of footprints. I don’t understand why you left my side when I needed you the most.’  The Lord said: ‘My precious child, I never left you during your time of trial.  Where you see only one set of footprints, I was carrying you.’”

There was a really old timer working on one machine and we call him Coach because of his former job at the University of Michigan. I told him that I had watched him working out and how I admired him the way he stuck to it.  I said I just bet that he was a man who left the kind of footsteps and finger prints that time would not erase.  He smiled at me and then he said, “Thank you.  That is a beautiful thought.”  As I walked back to my car I decided that I had made both of our days a bit brighter. 

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