The unseen footprints of God are not absent because He is absent.

He is present and stepping in the sands along the shore and those in the desert every

They are just quickly covered by the waters  and winds of time and life.

Yet, the ripples they cause and the current God guides are ever present.

" Your way was through the sea,
your path through the great minute waters;
yet your footprints were unseen."

(Psalm 77:19 ESV)