Then Samuel took a stone

and set it up

between Mizpah and Shen

and called its name

               Ebenezer,

for he said,

"Thus far

    the LORD has helped us."

               1 Samuel 7. 12

(And God is not about

     to abandon you now.

Ebenezer literally means

        "stone of help."

Literally rocks of remembering

             God's faithfulness,

    a whole field of them,

that we may not forget:

"I am with you. Do not fear.

      Even also in this.")

O LORD,

You are the Almighty God.

Even in this.

Help me to chronicle

     Your faithfulness in the past,

help me to trust You alone

     in this present dilemma,

help me to know You more

     in what is yet to come,

and to visibly remember

     and verbally acknowledge

        that You are the LORD.