Footprints in the Sand

Introduction

Footprints in the sand written by Mary Stevenson is popular text describes a dream in which the person is walking on a beach with God. She decided to pursue her claim to authorship and later in the year was awarded a copyright for her poem. Eleven years later her 1939 copy of "Footprints in the Sand" was authenticated as genuine by a forensic specialist and said to be approximately fifty-plus years old. This would pre-date any claims made by others of authorship including Margaret Fishback-Powers who has said to have written it 1964. This paper answers that God ...