Groove prints in the sand
An uncredited two-panel comic strip on the Calling Glory band’s Facebook page offers a new ending for Mary Stevenson’s “Footprints in the Sand” poem. That’s the one in which she tells of a dream of walking along the beach with the Lord and seeing only one set of footprints in the sand during her lowest times, leading her to believe that God had abandoned her when she needed him most.
The first panel recalls the familiar ending, in which the Lord offers this reassurance: “My child, I never left you. Those places with one set of footprints? It was then that I carried you.”
In the second panel, he adds: “That long groove over there is when I dragged you for a while.”
School of hard knocks