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experience; and when I looked, lo! it was not merely the footprints of a man that I saw, but I thought I knew whose feet had left those imprints; they were the marks of One who had been crucified, for there was the print of the nails. So I thought to myself, "If he has been here, it is a desert island no longer."
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In 1979, additional appearances occurred: two in small Louisiana and Mississippi newspapers, one in a Catholic journal, two in widely syndicated newspapers columns, one on a nationwide radio program and reprinted by two small papers, and one in a prominent evangelist's biography. In January 1979, the
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In 1883, an American encyclopedia of hymns by female writers included Jetty Vogel, an English poet. Vogel's "At the Portal" follows someone looking at their footprints as they deviate from the proper path. Vogel's hymn has an angel's footsteps but lacks the "I carried you" of the modern "Footprints".
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quoted it on his radio program." It is unknown whether the listener had copied it down from memory or received a written version from Mr. Harvey or elsewhere. No recordings or transcriptions of Mr. Harvey's daily radio news and commentary broadcasts are known to have survived. A verbatim copy of the
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June Hadden Hobbs suggested that the origin of the modern "Footprints" is in Mary B. C. Slade's 1871 hymn "Footsteps of Jesus" as "almost surely the source of the notion that Jesus's footprints have narrative significance that influences the way believers conduct their life stories...it allows Jesus
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publication. This version is similar to the "Carty" version but is credited to "Author Unknown—(Submitted by Billy Walker)". A third version appeared in October 1978, in two California papers, first in Oakland and twelve days later in Shafter, with a "young woman" and a "sandy pathway" in a "desert
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The three authors who have most strenuously promoted their authorship are Margaret Powers (née Fishback), Carolyn Carty, and Mary Stevenson. Powers says she wrote the poem on Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, in mid-October, 1964. Powers is among the contenders who have resorted to litigation in hopes
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noted in his column that a reader had sent him a story; it is unclear whether the version presented in the column—which casts a "pilgrim" as the human character—was used verbatim or was rewritten by Schuller: this particular version has not been re-published after the column's original nationwide
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The earliest known formally dated publications of any variants of the poem are from 1978, with three different descriptions of the person and also the setting. The first to appear in July 1978, in a small Iowa town newspaper, is a very concise (six-sentence) version featuring an "elderly man" and
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and it has been reprinted many times since. A line in the story reads, "Thus, by tracking our foot-prints in the sand, we track our own nature in its wayward course, and steal a glance upon it, when it never dreams of being so observed. Such glances always make us wiser." Non-fiction includes the
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This popular text is based in Christian beliefs and describes an experience in which a person is walking on a beach with God. They leave two sets of footprints in the sand. The tracks represent stages of the speaker's life. The two trails dwindle to one, especially at the lowest and most hopeless
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in Montana published a variant of the Carty version told in first person with slightly different punctuation and a "never, never" alteration to match the "precious, precious child" of the previous sentence. The author of the local weekly column noted that it had been supplied by a friend who had
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presented a Powers-like version with "a certain elderly man ... walking along a sea shore" where "Out of the waves shot rays of light, mystic and wonderful that played across the sky illuminating scenes from his life". He was "sorely troubled and his life had been at its saddest and lowest ebb."
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Carolyn Carty also claims to have written the poem in 1963 when she was six years old based on an earlier work by her great-great aunt, a Sunday school teacher. She is known to be a hostile contender of the "Footprints" poem and declines to be interviewed about it, although she writes letters to
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published an exact copy of the Stevenson version in July 1979. The column indicates that the correspondent who provided the work, claims to have carried a tattered copy around "for years" with no further explanation of its publication source. She printed the piece again in late February 1982 in
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And did you ever walk out upon that lonely desert island upon which you were wrecked, and say, "I am alone, — alone, — alone, — nobody was ever here before me"? And did you suddenly pull up short as you noticed, in the sand, the footprints of a man? I remember right well passing through that
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Within a decade, the last phrase of the poem was being used in public discourse without attribution, apparently on the assumption that any literate reader would know its origin. In some usages "of time" disappeared; later, "on" seems to become "in". "The Object of a Life" (1876) by
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moments of the person's life. When the narrator questions God, believing that the Lord must have abandoned his love during those times, God gives the explanation, "During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you."
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Old Testament translation from Latin into English uses the wording, "And in the wilderness (as thou hast seen) the Lord thy God hath carried thee, as a man is wont to carry his little son, all the way that you have come, until you came to this place." In 1971, the
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Before its appearance in the 1970s, the phrase "footprints in the sand" occurred in other works. The most dominant usage in prose is in the context of fictional or nonfiction adventure or mystery stories or articles. Prominent fiction includes
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In the two centuries before 1980, when "Footprints" entered popular American culture, many books, articles, and sermons appeared with "Footprints in the Sand" as a title. Some of them concerned the lives of Christian missionaries.
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in South Carolina ran a poem by frequent contributor M. L. Sullivan titled "Footprints". This was a bit of romantic verse that moves from sadness at "lone footprints in the sand" to close with "our footprints in the sand".
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used a variant of "Footprints", with himself as the human, as the closing lines in an August speech to evangelical leaders in Dallas, Texas. President Reagan used "Footprints" again in a speech at the annual
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re-published the Loughead piece (credited, but misspelled "Laughead"), ensuring a wider distribution in the western states. Chicago area poet Lucille Veneklasen frequently submitted poems to the
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used the language "and in the wilderness where you saw how the LORD your God carried you". Nearly identical wording is used in other late-twentieth-century translations, including the
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In my dream we walked, you and I to the shore / Leaving footprints by the sea / And when there was just one set of prints in the sand / That was when you carried me.
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and another to themselves. At some points the two pairs of footprints dwindle to one; it is explained that this is where God carried the protagonist.
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Then the picture changed. She now saw the footprints located in a vast desert wilderness, and instead of two sets of footprints, there was only one.
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In 1984, Ken Brown published a version of the poem in rhyme and rhythm as opposed to the more commonly known free form versions popular today.
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Veneklasen's poem appeared occasionally in newspaper obituaries, commonly lacking attribution, and often with the decease substituted for "I".
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those who write about the poem online. A collection of poetry by Carty with a claim to authorship of "Footprints" was published in 2004.
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uses this poem as its central motif. A Japanese translation of this poem is also recited in the Jabberwocky 2 chapter of the 2010 eroge
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When the pilgrim responded that he would, God unfolded the story of his whole life and he saw footprints from the cradle to the grave.
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and a believer to inhabit the same space at the same time...Jesus travels the path of the believer, instead of the other way around."
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article, discusses the claims of Burrell Webb, Mary Stevenson, Margaret Fishback Powers, and Carolyn Joyce Carty. Later that year,
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Then they came to a dark, discouraging valley and the pilgrim said, "I see only one set of footprints through that valley.
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The authorship of the poem is disputed, with a number of people claiming to have written it. In 2008, Rachel Aviv, in a
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In 2016, a larger-than-life sculpture inspired by the poem was installed at Pippen Memorial Park in Carthage, Texas.
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Immediately her spirits lifted because she interpreted this to mean that God was with her and was walking beside her.
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And when I turned to notice this road which I had trod, I saw two sets of footprints—My own... and those of God.
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But suddenly around me were beams of light, stretched wide; and then I saw that someone was walking by my side.
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Mary Stevenson is also a purported author of the poem circa 1936. A Stevenson biography was published in 1995.
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An elderly man, who had lived his life and left this world to go and meet his Maker asked the Lord a question.
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Then the inner voice of God softly spoke and said, "I have not left you. The one set of footprints is mine.
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I walked the road to sorrow—a road so dark with care, so lonely, I was certain that no one else was there.
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published a near exact Carty version but with a "My dear child" mutation at the end, and no attribution.
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included a summary of the poem as the fourth stanza in his song "Snows of New York" in the album
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I was so discouraged. You were not there with me. It was just as I thought–I was so all alone!"
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Advice columnist "Dear Abby" ran a Carty version attributed to "Author Unknown" in late 1981.
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pilgrim arrived in heaven and God said to him, "Would you like to see where you've come from?"
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Aviv suggests that the source of the modern "Footprints" allegory is the opening paragraph of
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Only there were not only the footprints of the pilgrim, but another set of prints alongside.
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song based on the poem called "Footprints in the Sand". The song peaked at No. 64 on the
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Carty, Carolyn Joyce; Scharring-Hausen, Robert Louis; Scharring-Hausen, Ella H. (2004).
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If I could know those little feet were shod in sandals wrought of light in better lands,
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in 1869, includes a stanza that describes God's footprints in the sand next to a boy's:
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closes with lead character Jean Donovan reciting a condensed version of Powers/Carty.
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Footprints in the Sand: The Life Story of Mary Stevenson, Author of the Immortal Poem
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Why was God no longer beside her? As despair settled back over her, she began to cry.
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And that the foot-prints of a tender God ran side by side with his, in golden sands,
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I could bow cheerfully, and kiss the rod, since Benny was in wiser, safer hands.
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young woman who was going through hard times ... began to pray to God for help.
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The second and most complete early appearance was in a September 1978 issue of
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Havre instance ran in a small, inmate-produced newsletter published by the
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The Lord smiled and simply replied, "Oh, my son, you've got that all wrong!
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of establishing a claim. She is occasionally confused with American writer
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You see, those are MY footprints. I carried you all through that valley."
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And the Lord said, "Those are My footprints. I was with you all the time."
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on February 5, 1981. These versions appear to be Stevenson paraphrases.
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Then the Lord said, "Oh, but I was there. I was with you the whole time.
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in the 1940s and 1950s; one entitled "Footprints" was published in the
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Deuteronomy 1:31 presents the concept of "God bearing you". The 1609
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wilderness". This version does not appear to have re-emerged later.
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published a condensed version of Stevenson's variant in July 1980.
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May Riley Smith's poem "If," published without attribution in the
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Footprints: The True Story Behind the Poem That Inspired Millions
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response to reader demand and noted that it had also appeared in
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song "Footprints", from their 2003 debut album "Beg For Mercy".
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The pilgrim said, "I see my footprints, but whose are those?"
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And how the lowest may find Him, who straitly walk with God
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To tell of the great example, the Man of compassion and woe;
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Of footprints left behind Him, in the earthly path He trod,
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But down the rocky roads I see only one set of footprints.
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Author Unknown (March 1979). "One night I had a dream".
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Whyte-Melville, George John (September–December 1876).
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Country chart and No. 30 on the U.S. Christian chart.
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An artistic rendering of the scene the poetry inspires
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ran a short story "Footprints in the Sand" written by
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The poem was also the inspiration and chorus for the
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During the 1980 United States presidential campaign,
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You see, I am carrying you through the wilderness."
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Footprints in the Sand: One Night a Man Had a Dream
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