<P> "Footprints," also known as "Footprints in the Sand," is a popular allegorical text written in prose . </P> <P> This popular text is based in Christian beliefs and describes an experience in which a person is walking on a beach with God . They leave two sets of footprints in the sand . The tracks represent stages of the speaker's life . The two trails dwindle to one, especially at the lowest and most hopeless moments of the person's life . When questioning God, believing that the Lord must have abandoned his love during those times, God gives the explanation, "During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you ." </P> <P> The authorship of the poem is disputed, with a number of people claiming to have written it . In 2008, Rachel Aviv in a Poetry Foundation article discusses the claims of Burrell Webb, Mary Stevenson, Margaret Fishback Powers, and Carolyn Joyce Carty . Later that year, The Washington Post, covering a lawsuit between the claims of Stevenson, Powers and Carty, said that "At least a dozen people" had claimed credit for the poem . </P> <P> The three authors who have most strenuously promoted their authorship are Margaret Powers (née Fishback), Carolyn Carty, and Mary Stevenson . Powers says she wrote the poem on Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, in mid-October, 1964 . Powers is among the contenders who have resorted to litigation in hopes of establishing a claim . She is occasionally confused with American writer Margaret Fishback . Powers published an autobiography in 1993 . </P>

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