Unusual Footprints on the Sand

We all are familiar with the "Footprints in the Sand" poem. Here is a variation -- a rather insightful variation -- on that theme. I thought it would be a wonderful addition to my blog which have the footprints theme.

Footprints Revisited-Transcribed from Vertical Hold video 5/19/04

One night I had a wondrous dream

A set of prints on the sand was seen

The footprints of my precious Lord

Yet mine were not along the shore

But then a stranger print appeared

I asked the Lord 

What have we here?

This print it large and round and neat

But Lord it’s just too big for feet

My child, he said in somber tones

For miles, I carried you alone 

I challenged you to seek my face

Take up your cross and walk in grace

You disobeyed, you would not grow

You would not stand against the flow

Your neck was stiff your ears were shut

So there I dropped you on your butt!

Because in life there comes a time 

When one must fight, when one must climb

When one must rise and take a stand

Or leave one's butt prints in the sand.