Footprints

During the trying times in life, you can feel that you are completely alone. You're doing everything you can think of to turn everything around. Nothing seems to be going your way. Where is God? Why isn't he helping you? Is he really gonna let you fail? These are the toughest times of your life and you have nowhere to turn and no one to turn to. Seriously, where is God?

According to this poem, he's not only there with you, he's carrying you through it. He's providing you more support that you ever imagined. In the invisible of course. Why doesn't he make himself visible to us? Why doesn't he come out of the shadows and say hey kid, here I am? Don't worry about a thing, I got you! Why is it only after the drama is over do you get a clue that he was there the whole time? Doesn't he realize how many more people would eagerly follow him if he just made himself visible to us?

Most of us spend so much time trying to figure out if he's really there and what does he want from us that we become skeptical. There are millions of people who just don't want to be made a fool of. Believing in something or someone that doesn't really exist. How can you trust in something you don't see? Most people compare this to the air. You can't see air but you know it's there. You can see the effects of it. Can you really feel the effects of God? I mean you have to rely on faith that he even exists and then rely on miracles to say that he even caress.

Day to day you pray to him and ask him to guide your way and bless you. Does he really hear he? Do you ever hear him? Does he ever answer? Is he really moving things or do things just happen? Does he really move in mysterious ways or is that just something we tell ourselves to quell our anger? We're supposed to rely on something we can't see to explain what we don't understand. It makes my brain hurt. I'm sure God knows what he's requiring of us even if we don't think it's fair.

He says that he is with us always, that he knows our thoughts before we even know them. That he knows our hearts and he has a plan for our lives. Why doesn't he let us in on all of this? We spend our entire lives trying to figure out who we are and what the purpose of life is. I swear if those things were revealed I wouldn't have to spend so much time thinking and struggling through life. Of course it's our experiences and our decisions that ultimately determine who we are and what we will be but if there is a cheat sheet I'd love to sneak a peek at it sometime. I'm just saying.

Expect

If you're going through a rough time right now and nothing seems to ever go your way, you're in luck. You find that hard to believe? Well, believe it.

Everything in this world exists in balance, homeostasis, equilibrium. Hot/cold, day/night, young/old, good/evil. Agree? Well, if you're having bad times, you have to be in for some good times. Instead of getting down during the "down" periods you should get excited! You should expect that everything will turn around. You should expect an incredible "up" period.

Depending on just how bad the situation is, you should expect a miracle! That's right a miracle. If you remain in faith, you should be able to look back on many other times in your life where you thought life sucked and everything was going wrong and you were just facing one disaster after another. But somehow, some way, you recovered, right? And you're better because of it right?

I like to think of all my heart breaks and disappointments as God's way of preparing me for the future. I've had tons and tons of disappointment but I know they were things that I had to experience to get to where I am now. If you have major setbacks, expect major progress forward. So even though things aren't going exactly as you planned, this is not the end of you.

You will do more than get through it, you will do more than survive it, you will do more than overcome it. Remember, there has to be a balance to your life. Revel in the rough times, keep your head up, stick your chest out, keep your eyes to the heavens and EXPECT A MIRACLE!! You deserve it.