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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