When Trouble Comes Who Helps Carries Us? Poem by Terence George Craddock

there are many famous sayings
'when things get tough the tough get going'
but where do they go what do they do?
'a rolling stone gathers no moss'
busy implications but on a steep hillside
rolling stones rocks avalanches are dangerous
'idle hands make the devil's work'
meaning to busy working to get in trouble

to get to the point when we are in trouble
when we incapable cannot help ourselves
who will come to our aid who will help us
can we depend on anyone to help us
can we depend on anyone to carry us
perhaps a neighbour stranger will help us

the famous 'Footprints in the Sand'
poem also called 'Footprints' is origins
disputed claimed by at least a dozen;
different people who said they wrote it
it is clear not all twelve penned this poem
many prose texts poems mention footprints;

But what does this Bible picture quote
with footsteps God carries us mean?

the original origins are all in the Bible
God and Biblical writers wrote the source
God and Biblical writers claim their words
Exodus 19: 4 God said 'I bore you on eagles'
wings, and brought you to Myself.'

Deuteronomy 32: 11 God an eagle carries us.
'Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,
That hovers over its young,
He spread His wings and caught them,
He carried them on His pinions.'
pinions means wings carried on wings

Deuteronomy 1: 31 God a Father carries us.
'and in the wilderness where you saw how
the Lord your God carried you, just as a man
carries his son, in all the way which you have
walked until you came to this place.'
A 'Footprints in the Sand' source origin?

Isaiah 63: 9 God carries in affliction.
'In all their affliction He was afflicted,
And the angel of His presence saved them;
In His love and in His mercy He redeemed
them, And He lifted them and carried them'

Isaiah 40: 11 God carries his lambs.
'Like a shepherd He will tend His flock,
In His arm He will gather the lambs
And carry them in His bosom;
He will gently lead the nursing ewes.'

Psalm 28: 9 God the shepherd carries us.
'Save Your people and bless Your inheritance;
Be their shepherd also, and carry them forever.'

Isaiah 46: 3-4 God carries Israel.
'Listen to Me, O house of Jacob,
And all the remnant of the house of Israel,
You who have been borne by Me from birth
And have been carried from the womb;
Even to your old age I will be the same,
And even to your graying years I will bear you!
I have done it, and I will carry you; And I will
bear you and I will deliver you.'

Psalm 91: 11-12 Angels will carry us.
'For He will give His angels charge
concerning you, To guard you in all your ways.
They will bear you up in their hands, That you
do not strike your foot against a stone.

Matthew 4: 6 Jesus carried until crucified.
'If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself
down; for it is written, ‘He will command
His angels concerning You'; and ‘On their
hands they will bear You up, So that You
will not strike Your foot against a stone.'

Luke 4: 11 Jesus carried until dies for your sins.
'On their hands they will bear You up, So that
You will not strike Your foot against a stone.'

1 Kings 18: 12 Spirit of the Lord carries us.
'It will come about when I leave you that
the Spirit of the Lord will carry you where
I do not know; so when I come and tell Ahab
and he cannot find you, he will kill me,
although I your servant have feared the Lord
from my youth.'

Revelation 17: 3 John carried in prophecy.
'And he carried me away in the Spirit
into a wilderness; and I saw a woman
sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous
names, having seven heads and ten horns.'

Revelation 21: 10 Carried in promised return.
'And he carried me away in the Spirit
to a great and high mountain, and showed
me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down
out of heaven from God, '

A definitive case is made in the Bible
God carries us who can deny it?
Into his word, God writes, he carries us.
God writes his prophets, God writes;
his people extend the hand, God carries.

Yes the toxic wolf will come with
foaming mouth, gashing teeth, to deny
full of hate, lies, in a dark soul cloak.

Yes the one who never read a single
page in the Bible, but is an expert on,
a Bible never read, citing misquoted;
verse, hating in rage passion a God,
this one claims, not to believe in;
speaking writing hate God words.

A rational kind loving mind,
would not hate Mahatma Gandhi...
what was his horrible crime?
He saw suffering poverty,
intolerance, injustice, wanted to heal it;
feed the poor, heal the sick.

Did you know Mahatma Gandhi
admired Jesus, applied his teachings,
his peace moral code to his life.
Gandhi said 'An eye for an eye only ends
up making the whole world blind.'

The one who claps claps exclaims
Jesus was nothing a common criminal
must rabid hate to tell such foolish lies.
Jesus claimed to come for the lost
poor sick helpless to heal with miracles
a message of eternal peace not war.

When a woman caught in adultery
was brought before him by holy men
who wanted to stone her to death.
Jesus refused to judge her helped her
treated her with kindness forgave her sin
saved her life that day for eternity.

When leapers came to Jesus who all shunned
Jesus touched them held them healed them.
Jesus healed all who came to him to be healed.
Jesus never spoke about God before he healed.
Jesus feed body soul is that a reason to hate him?

The one who claps claps exclaims,
Jesus was nothing a common criminal,
has forgotten an ability to think reason.
A common criminal crucified, who now
influences a world two thousand years
later, who many proclaim him to be holy.

A nobody from a backward province,
ruled by Rome, who still today influences,
the world is not a common criminal.

Ask good lawyers about the influence
of Jesus, an influence that inspired both
the Magna Carta, and a document famous;
an American Declaration of Independence;
most moral and ethical laws, that globally
enrich and protect developed human society.

An event that happened 2 thousand years
ago, to stamp out a belief, the mighty Roman
Empire could not stop; with presently about
2.4 billion followers. Rather a miracle, an
impossible outcome that any good gambler,
would bet heavily against, at impossible odds.

The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, did not stop
belief in a man, who died a terrible death; as
it was supposed to as a shock terror tactic.
Why? Because over two thousand claimed,
to have seen Jesus after he was resurrected,
from the dead; his surviving disciples were

prepared to die, similar horror chilling deaths,
to spread a message, that Jesus rose from death.
Consider the present world population, learn
the total number who believe Jesus was Holy.

Doing the math Christianity 31.1%,
Islam 24.9% is 55%,2.4 billion are
Christians,1.9 billion are Islamic.
Over half the worlds population believes
Jesus was the son of God or a prophet.

Now the big question is who believes
in God and who does not believe?
Over 55% of people believe in one God,
most of the rest believe in multiple gods.

The non-believers with no God and no
religious texts are 12% of the world.
The religion atheism is a religious
belief, with no sacred texts, no god,
2% of the world,150 million believers.

Yes to state there is no god
is a statement of belief;
the belief there is no god;
strangely is a religious belief.

Atheism is an absence of belief
in the existence of deities. Or
atheism is a rejection that deities
exist, or a claim there are no deities.

'According to a 2016 Pew Research
Center publication,15% of French
people,45% of Americans, and 99%
of Indonesians explicitly believe that
a person must believe in God to be moral.'

Strangely death anxiety
as identified in psychology
occurs most in young adulthood;
20 to 40 years of age and not
in the old as might be expected;
what happens after death we can
wait in time we are sure to find out.