Today, I stood at the deli counter at our local Walmart. When the lady finally came over, I was sure I’d misheard the lady behind the counter. It was mid-afternoon and she told me she was closed, couldn’t cut me any meat because she was cleaning up before she left and they are short staffed. I was too tired to be at The Walmart. I felt like someone had just stole my balloon. I stood there in literal shock, I just wanted Nate’s 2 pounds of deli meat. My mind started spinning and I wasn’t thinking very clearly. I just needed for Nate to be able to make 59 Dagwood sandwiches next week. He doesn’t eat at school. He runs and has soccer practice. He needs to be able to think and do pages of Pre-calculus homework and study for Chemistry . I just wanted meat and to go home. Where is this all going to end? The whole world is short staffed. I thought of my coworkers and I, we worked short staffed and overbooked this week as did many. I was tired. It was a long week. But, we kept cutting t
I love the hymn "Come thou Fount", it's one of my very favorites. Every time we sing this song as a church family or our own family worship, I am overcome with emotion as I ponder the words of the hymn. I often have to stop singing. However, I'm disappointed when some editors of hymnals have changed the words: "Here I raise my Ebenezer, hither by thy help I'm come and I hope by thy good pleasure safely to arrive at home". Ebenezer is a big word and can leave some puzzled in it's meaning, we don't often use it in conversation. It's worth recovering. The line from the third verse "Let that grace now, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to thee" is often changed as well. Fetter is a “chain/shackle usually around the ankle to hold a prisoner”. To be shackled to Him by His grace, what a beautiful picture... Ebenezer is a Hebrew word for "stone of help". In 1 Samuel 7:12, after being saved from an attack by the LORD&#