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A birthday drawing for Will's 19th.

This one was both quite fun and quite challenging. People in perspective = hard beans. I had my brother and father pose, but they weren't that useful. Pretty much everything below the waist to the knees is fail, but I like the rest of my Superman Jesus.

The concept is based off of the poem "Footprints In the Sand." A man is complaining to God why he's been so alone in the hard times and where was He? But God replies that there have only been one set of footprints in the sand -- because He's been the one carrying the man through everything the whole time.

In this drawing, Will requested the man be himself.

Art (c) Janelle Baker 2008

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Footprints in the Sand

One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.

In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there was one only.

This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life, when I was suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat, I could see only one set of footprints, so I said to the Lord,

“You promised me Lord,
that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life there has only been one set of footprints in the sand. Why, when I needed you most, have you not been there for me?”

The Lord replied, “The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you.”

Mary Stevenson, 1936

Description
A birthday drawing for Will's 19th.

This one was both quite fun and quite challenging. People in perspective = hard beans. I had my brother and father pose, but they weren't that useful. Pretty much everything below the waist to the knees is fail, but I like the rest of my Superman Jesus.

The concept is based off of the poem "Footprints In the Sand." A man is complaining to God why he's been so alone in the hard times and where was He? But God replies that there have only been one set of footprints in the sand -- because He's been the one carrying the man through everything the whole time.

In this drawing, Will requested the man be himself.

Art (c) Janelle Baker 2008

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Footprints in the Sand

One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.

In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there was one only.

This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life, when I was suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat, I could see only one set of footprints, so I said to the Lord,

“You promised me Lord,
that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life there has only been one set of footprints in the sand. Why, when I needed you most, have you not been there for me?”

The Lord replied, “The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you.”

Mary Stevenson, 1936