The End

Dear Readers,

In 2008 I began Footprints in the Sand and little knew where it would take me. I could not have imagined that hundreds of people would read a blog written by me of all people. Blogging these past two and a half years has been such a joy to me. All of the comments and encouragement I received from you all on so many occasions is not something I will soon forget. I thank you for your kindness and I thank the Lord for giving me an opportunity to be a part of your lives in some small way.

Footprints in the Sand was inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, A Psalm of Life.

"...Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sand of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait."

My blogging journey is now coming to a close. It has been a difficult decision to make but I know that for now, my journey into the blogging world ends here. To everything there is a season and I believe that I have accomplished all I can here for the present. So many chapters of my life are closing, I graduated from high school, I am going to college this fall, and today is my last birthday as a teenager, but I move forward with trust in a sovereign Savior who does all things well. I do not know what my future holds but I know Who holds my future.

"May the Lord find us faithful, may his word be our banner held high. May the Lord find us faithful, everyday though we live though we die."*

It is my hope that you will desire to leave footprints behind you upon the sands of time. Life is but a vapor but eternity is forever and you cannot underestimate the power that one of your footprints might make in regard to where someone will spend eternity.

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

-Sir Winston Churchill

With Gratitude,

*May the Lord Find Us Faithful by Mac Lynch