Do you remember?

Ever have one of those moments where you just feel really low and need a pick-me-up? I had one of those the other day. It was a long day and I had learned of a girl I played field hockey and lacrosse with  all through high school, had dies of a brain aneurysm. It was so sad. My legs almost gave out when I found out. My grandfather and great uncle died last fall and both were more expected. She had my back on and off the field for four years. It just hit me really hard. I was also a bit stressed over work stuff and friendships and I just had one of those "Ahhhh God what is going on?" moments.

It was a very lost feeling. So I got down and prayed. All alone on our town house, I was venting, crying and talking to God about how I felt. During me catching a breath I felt the need to go down and get my journal. My Ebenezer journal. 

While at FLI we had a woman's retreat at Glen Eyrie castle here in Colorado Springs. It was nice to get away just us girls. We worshiped, read through scripture and just hung out. During that time we talked about the importance of remembering God's grace, forgiveness and love. There are sometimes we forget. We looked at a passage in 1 Samuel 7 where Samuel the prophet prays to God because the Philistines were coming to attack them. God delivered Israel from the hands of the Philistines. In an act of remembering God's goodness, Samuel placed a stone where they were saved and called it Ebenezer, which means stone of help. So we made journals of remembrance. I wrote things that reminded me of God's grace through my life and memories of where I have really seen Him work. So I grabbed my journal and started to read through it. 

I was filled with a sense of peace and joy remembering God's amazing work in my life. Then I was hit with a sadness because it is so easy sometimes for me to forgets the awesome things He has done.  I was overwhelmed with gratefulness. A similar things happened today! I was driving back from a chiropractor appointment and I got a phone call from a woman at Eastern who is in charge of internships. She was interviewing a few people about their experience and I finally got a chance to talk to her after a few missed calls and emails exchanged. I talked about my experience interning with FCA both out in Colorado and back in Philadelphia. I was reminded of how amazing an experience it was, how it taught me so much and how I am here today because of that. 

(Top picture is me speaking at a FCA middle school huddle in Philadelphia and the bottom is me and some of my small group girls at Cheyenne Mt. High School in CO.)

Sometimes we need to be reminded of God's amazing work. At the end of one of our presentations we have all the students write down somethings they do not want to forget about having Axis there and we put them in envelopes and give them to their teachers to give back to them in six months or so. It must be so great to look back and remember what touched them after so much time has passed. As much as we need to remember God's grace everyday sometimes we need it more than others. 

How do you remember God's faithfulness? Do you need an 'Ebenezer stone'?