{"id":826,"date":"2006-06-04T22:15:12","date_gmt":"2006-06-04T21:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=826"},"modified":"2006-06-04T22:15:12","modified_gmt":"2006-06-04T21:15:12","slug":"footprints-in-the-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=826","title":{"rendered":"footprints in the sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>one night i had a dream. i dreamed i was walking along the beach with my Lord. across the sky flashed scenes from my life. for each scene i noticed two sets of footprints in the sand; one belonging to me, and the other to my Lord. <\/p>\n<p>when the last scene of my life flashed before me i looked back at the footprints in the sand. i noticed that many times along the path of my life there was only one set of footprints. i also noticed that it happened at the lowest and saddest times in my life.<\/p>\n<p>this reality bothered me and i questioned the Lord about it: &#8220;Lord, you said that once i decided to follow you, you\u00c2\u00b4d walk with me all the way. but i have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life, there is only one set of footprints. i don\u00c2\u00b4t understand why, when i needed you most, you would leave me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>the Lord replied: &#8220;my precious child, i love you and i would never leave you. during your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that i carried you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>one night i had a dream. i dreamed i was walking along the beach with my Lord. across the sky flashed scenes from my life. for each scene i noticed two sets of footprints in the sand; one belonging to me, and the other to my Lord. when the last scene of my life flashed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miracle-drug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}