{"sf1_id":1174599,"sf2_id":"GnDDNgpn","title":"First Nations Footprints","author":"FarmWolf","words":163,"posted_at":"2017-04-23T13:38:46.000Z","tags":["First Nations","Human","Inspirational","Native American","aboriginal","creator","religious"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1174599-first-nations-footprints","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/GnDDNgpn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/08/d3/08d3c85d-e298-44a3-b105-f56f74e0aff4","description":"Here is a human-only version of my story \"[Pawprints](https://www.sofurry.com/view/1172798),\" as indigenous people might have told it.","content":"First Nations Footprints\n\n \n\n \n\nOne night a man had a dream.\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\nHe dreamed that he was walking along a trail with the Creator.\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\nIn the sky played scenes from his life.\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\nFor each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints on the trail;\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\none belonged to him, the other to the Creator.\n\n \n\n \n\nWhen the last scene from his life had faded, he looked back at the footprints on the trail.\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\nHe noticed that when the trail was the most challenging there was only one set.\n\n \n\n \n\nHe found this odd, and asked the Creator about it.\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\n“My understanding has been that whenever my trail was difficult, you would walk it with me.\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\nBut I’ve seen only one set of footprints at the times the trail was hardest.\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\nWhere were you then?”\n\n \n\n \n\nThe Creator replied, “Beloved, I am with you always, and could not leave you if I tried.\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\nWhen your trail was most challenging, and you saw one set of footprints, I was carrying you.”"}