God’s Footprints

When you have eyes

That see beyond the everyday,

You sometimes see God’s footprints

Walking around situations that

Touch people.

Pain and death and sickness and slander

Are easier to pass through

when you do not walk alone.

When you don’t have this vision,

You just see evil things done by evil people with no hope in sight.

Comments

[Tamar]

Who wrote this poem?

[Dan Lowe]

Katha,

Interesting poem. I like this line "Pain and death and sickness and slander/Are easier to pass through/when you do not walk alone." It gives me pause to consider that loneliness, abandonment, fear, hunger, poverty, and other deserts of life are easier to pass through when we do not walk alone. It also gives me pause to think of students on campus, particularly international students, who walk through these deserts alone everyday. For if the footprints of God are not the footprints of his own body, might we be missing something when we fail to look at our own feet? Let us walk with those whom we see as the lonely and downtrodden on our very own campus. Shalom.