My Ebenezer

Instead of stones hurled, here's to them being lifted up!

There is something to be said about each of us having a mind, a heart, and organs that makes us mortal. And Human! There is also a key that can help unlock mortality and help us Humans. The Human spirit, whether you believe it comes with the body or existed prior to birth. Or the soul that each of us has, whether your belief is that it dwells within or without the body. Perhaps this beckons us to ‘search, ponder and pray’ (Children’s Songbook, pg 109, Jaclyn Thomas Milne, 1986). All this world and our existence in it, to make sense can seem at times overwhelming.
Regardless who you are or where you come from, my hope is that if there is something you get out of what I share that draws you closer to peace and/or shines a little light in your life, then this world and our existence makes a little more sense!
I welcome you to My Ebenezer.

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First, second, and last, I am on this journey with you! I do not have the answers to all of it for you. But I have searched, pondered, and prayed on things to the extent that I have received confirmations of what is truth and where to find it. As I have recalled, all my journaling was being written with an audience in mind. I found it odd that I never wrote to myself. “My Ebenezer” came to mind to be my site because it comes from one of my favorite Christian Hymns, ‘Come Thou Fount’, penned by Robert Robinson, 1758, referencing 1 Samuel 7:7-12. As reflected in the hymn, the word Ebenezer in Hebrew means ‘stone of help’. So as I lift my ‘stones of help’, remember that I am a mere vessel. And you too have stones of help that you can lift up. This can and will strengthen you, as well as can be a beacon or light for someone else. As My Ebenezer has been for me a strength, I hope they can be for you!

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The Mirror

To see my reflection can be great or trying. It is interesting because I do not consider myself vain but when I see a mirror, I do look at myself. I look partly because the reflection is familiar, it’s me! But I also look because of the inevitable questions that follow. ‘Did I put myself together okay enough? How am I doing? Smiling?’ Sure, I can spend too much time critiquing my reflection and picking myself apart. That is not helpful. To me. To you. Even to the mirror! I have seen great mirrors and one day I was focused on appreciating a mirror. The mirror I was admiring was beautiful! It is still to this day one of the favorite mirrors I have seen. During the few minutes I was looking at the mirror, I noticed a tiny, tiny chip in the mirror. Immediately I felt that it was too bad and now the mirror is not perfect and my opinion was dropping. But before that feeling hit the bottom of my stomach, I had a reminder inside me tell me that the tiny chip doesn’t discount the remainder of the large mirror. In fact, there is so much mirror left that has value, worth, and purpose. And frankly, it had always been a beautiful mirror and continued to be so no matter when or why that chip had come. There is so much more to that mirror to focus on. So much more than the tiny flaw. There are times I’ll pass by that mirror and see myself and give a little smile. Possibly because I have come to know that this mirror and I have something in common. We both are flawed but still have value, worth, and purpose!

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