My Ebenezer
Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the Lord has helped us.”
(1 Kings 7:12)
Though weary and brow-beaten from within
And lost in endless self-analysis,
Dissecting all the faintest hints of sin
And searching out death’s sure catalysis:
Though trapped in corridors of guilt and fear
And scarcely able to see out the end,
Fleeing ghosts which, at my footsteps, disappear
But dreading still the ghosts around the bend,
Though trapped so often in the anxious Now,
Afraid of its potentiality,
The past and all its battles tell me how
My God has sought me, lifted, rescued me.
Thus far the Lord has helped me, I can say
And wait in faith on His mysterious way.
The Consolations of Writing 
I used to think the name Ebenezer was a symbolism for a grouching miser like Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol. Then I found out what the name meant, “The Lord has helped us thus far”. Pretty cool! 🙂
I thought that too! And I would sing the hymn “Come Thou Fount” and wonder why we would want to raise our Ebenezer Scrooge 🙂
LOL!! Same here!! That’s too funny!! 🙂