Footprints in the Sand A Funeral Homily The Book of Proverbs
says: ‘Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto
thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He
shall direct thy paths’ Those two phrases ‘all thy ways’ and
‘direct thy paths’ remind us that Christians have always
understood our life as a journey or a pilgrimage – from our
beginning when God made us ‘in His own image’, to our end for
which He made us ‘the vision of God’ So life is a journey – but
it is not an easy one. To reach our destination we have to know
the answer to two questions: ‘Where we are going to?’, and
‘Which Way we should go?’. To the first question – where are we
going – we already know the answer: in the words of the well-
known hymn, ‘we are ‘travelling home to God’. To the second
question – what is the way – we must turn for the answer to the
words spoke Jesus to Saint Thomas in the Upper Room: Jesus said
to Thomas, ‘I am the Way the Truth and the Life: no-one comes to
the Father but by me’ But it i