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Communion Reflections
 

One set of footprints

One night a man had a dream. He dreamt that he was walking along a beach with the Lord. Across the sky flashed the scenes of his life. 
For each scene he noticed not one but two sets of footprints in the sand.
He understood immediately that one belonged to him, and the other to the Lord.

But then he noticed a curious thing. At the lowest and saddest times in his life there was only one set of footprints.
This bothered him, so he asked the Lord: ‘How come that during the most difficult times in my life, you left me on my own?’

Then the Lord replied:
‘My precious, precious child, I love you and would never leave you; during your trials and sufferings, when you see only one set of footprints, those footprints are mine.
It was then that I carried you’.