Everyone knows the “Footprints” poem.  It’s a great poem to those going through tough times.  May come across a little tacky to those full of themselves riding on the waves of a successful life. 

But that wave will eventually crash onto a beach with sand and you just may find yourself relating to the footprints poem because you are in that zone.

But I just watched a music video by Leona Lewis with the footprints theme all over it.  But what got me was the footage of children in need.  Abandoned, scared, lonely and sad are descriptions no child should ever face.

They are simply too innocent and precious to be abandoned to the filthy world a fallen humanity has created.  And yet this is the reality of millions and millions of them.

I simply breaks me.  When I think about my two little kids, to imagine their little personalities having to cope with what millions of kids go through everyday makes me shiver.  I’m going to hug them just that little more when I see them next.  And then I’m going to thank God that my two kids have a safe place to grow up.  And then I’m gonna plead with God that those kids “out there” are supernaturally protected by their ultimate heavenly Father.

Matthew 18:3 says:

“Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven”

Children are precious in the eyes of God.  He actually wants us to be more like them when it comes to accepting Him.  God loves kids.

So if you mix the footprints theme with the reality of abandoned children and a heavenly Father that loves them so much – and all His children – both young and old, and then throw in the amazing talent of Leona Lewis, you end up with this…