{"id":1179,"date":"2009-10-27T20:25:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T06:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradyoshiro.com\/blog\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2009-10-27T20:25:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T06:25:51","slug":"footprints-in-the-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradyoshiro.com\/weddings\/footprints-in-the-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Footprints in the sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bradyoshiro.com\/hawaii_wedding_photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/footsteps-1.jpg\"rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bradyoshiro.com\/hawaii_wedding_photography\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/a23b9b187eb13f15c3e0da0e236b563b.jpg\" alt=\"footsteps-1\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1180\" imagescaler=\"http:\/\/bradyoshiro.com\/hawaii_wedding_photography\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/a23b9b187eb13f15c3e0da0e236b563b.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFootprints in the Sand<\/p>\n<p>One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.<\/p>\n<p>In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there was one only.<\/p>\n<p>This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life, when I was suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat, I could see only one set of footprints, so I said to the Lord,<\/p>\n<p>\u0093You promised me Lord,<br \/>\nthat if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life there has only been one set of footprints in the sand. Why, when I needed you most, have you not been there for me?\u0094<\/p>\n<p>The Lord replied, \u0093The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you.\u0094<\/p>\n<p>Mary Stevenson, 1936<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footprints in the Sand One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky. In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there was one only. This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life, when I was suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat, I could see only one set of footprints, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[166,133,167,168],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gernral","tag-encouragements","tag-god","tag-life","tag-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradyoshiro.com\/weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradyoshiro.com\/weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradyoshiro.com\/weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradyoshiro.com\/weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradyoshiro.com\/weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradyoshiro.com\/weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradyoshiro.com\/weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradyoshiro.com\/weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradyoshiro.com\/weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}