Struggles

Isn't it strange how one person's source of comfort is another's source of pain?
Isn't it strange how the thing that comforts one person in a hard situation makes another person who SEEMS to be in the same situation feel worse?
Isn't it strange how someone can think people around them MIGHT understand how they feel, only to find they don't?

One more hard lesson that God is the only one you can rely one 100% of the time. People will let you down: they're only people. circumstanses will disappoint. Plans will fail. Just get up, brush it off & don't let anyone else see you cry (That way you don't have to try to explain). Ther is only One you can depend on no matter what. He won't judge you, because He made you & knows what you're going through. No matter how alone you feel, He really is there walking beside you, & when needed, carrying you.

Footprints

Last night I had a dream.

I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord.

Across the sky flashed scenes from my life.

For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand:

One belonged to me, the other to the Lord.

After the last scene of my life flashed before me,

I looked back at the footprints in the sand.

I noticed that at many timesalong the path of my life,

Especially at the very lowest and saddest times,

There was only one set of footprints.

This really troubled me,

So I asked the Lord about it.

"Lord, You said that once I decided to follow You,

You'd walk with me all the way.

But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,

There was only one set of footprints.

I don't understand why,

When I needed You most, You would leave me."

The Lord replied, "My son, My Precious child,

I love you and would never leave you.

During your times of suffering,

When you could see only one set of footprints,

It was then that I carried you."

This is a poem that I learned as a kid, & have hung onto ever since. Sometimes it helps to be reminded.