Girls Write Out
Thursday, June 03, 2010

Recently, I received the most amazing gift. My friend called it an "Ebenezer". It is a large glass vase filled with a large candle and flat river rocks at the bottom. A raffia bow is tied on the outside with a Sharpie pen hanging on the bow, along with the following Scripture:

"Then Samuel took a stone and set it up . . . He named it Ebenezer, saying, 'Thus far has the Lord helped us.'" I Samuel 7:12

My friend who gave this precious gift to me told me to write on these stones of remembrances when God brought me through another step on my health journey. When she gave me the gift, she had written on the first stone, "Successful surgery, 2/10/10."

I LOVE this gift. It is setting on my kitchen table as a reminder of God's mercy and goodness. Those stones are proof positive that He is working in my life. Things that could easily be swept aside in my memory, are there on my table reminding and encouraging me every step of the way.

I so love this gift that I've started making them myself. I make them for wedding and baby showers. I'm even going to have the main character in my next book make these gifts in hopes that it will catch on. :-)

What about you--have you received, or given, a meaningful gift to someone that you would care to share with us?

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Diann Hunt  
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Kristin Billerbeck is a proud Californian, wife, mother of four, and connoisseur of the irrelevant. She writes Christian Chick Lit; where she finds need for most of the useless facts lulling about in her head.

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