FOOT PRINTS

A true story from Sandy Griffin

SEVERAL YEARS AGO, WE WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF A HUGE SNOW STORM,ALMOST BLIZZARD LIKE CONDITIONS. MY HUSBAND HAD GONE OFF TO WORK EARLY MORNING AS USUAL AND THE SNOW WAS ACCUMULATING. THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF SNOW THAT DAY, WAS ABOUT ELEVEN INCHES.

There was a knock on the door and I went to see who it was. There was a poor looking man and he asked if he could shovel our walk. I supposed every one that needed money and was out of work would go looking for that job today. I felt bad, when I told him that I didn't have any money to give. I was going to ask him in to warm up and he said that maybe if I had something to eat. I told him to wait a minute... that I could do that and when I returned to the living room door, he was out there shoveling not only the walk, but the path from the driveway to the house and the driveway.

I had bundled two big sacks of groceries, which contained cereal, some pastas dry milk, canned goods, ect. I called to him and said he shouldn't do all that, whereon he came to the door. I handed him two sacks and asked him to wait a minute so that I could go get the package of hamburger for him. I went to the kitchen to retrieve the package from the counter, not twenty feet away and when I returned to the living room, the door was slightly ajar and he was gone.

I stepped out side the door and I couldn't see him any where. I walked to the street and looked down to the end, which is a good distance.. He was no where to be seen. I couldn't understand, how he could have covered that distance so fast, and as I walked back to the house, it struck me...

There wasn't any "Foot Prints" in the snow that had fallen deep around our area. There wasn't any cars that attempted to climb this hill either, as the salt trucks hadn't been through as yet. As I was became puzzled then it struck me even more... He didn't have a shovel when he first came to the door and ours. I'm certain the snow shovels were in the locked garage and I looked again... Not a Foot Print any where!

I can't explain it even today and my children tell me it was an angel. When ever they refer to this, they always mention the day the angel came to the door. In my heart, I believe they are right. Why he came, I don't know.. If there was a danger some where, I will never know. I know there wasn't any "Foot Prints" left in the snow... but there were "Foot Prints" left in my heart.

THE BIBLE SAYS THAT, WE SOMETIMES ENTERTAIN ANGELS UNAWARE. WHAT EVER YOU BELIEVE IS YOURS TO BELIEVE... BUT AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE, WE BELIEVE IN ANGELIC VISITATIONS. In HIS Name, Sandy Griffin

Sandy Griffin