There is a parable about a man who meets with God in heaven. God is showing the man his entire life’s path and the man can see from the footprints that God had been walking beside him his entire life. Then the man noticed that in the bleakest periods of his life there was only one set of footprints on the ground. The man turned to God reproachfully: “Why God did you leave me at the times that were hardest to endure?”, to which God replied: “You are mistaken. Those are not your footprints but mine. In those most challenging moments I carried you in my arms”.
