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Monday, 3 August 2020

Places on the Way - Memorials

Monument to Sir Alan Ball - Valletta Malta


1 Samuel 7:12 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.”


Each memory stone along the way

Speaks of lives lived in distant days,

They tell of hours, days, years long spanned

Of deeds encountered, met or planned


Embossed with name, birth date and years,

All but forgotten like the tears.

That once were shed upon this spot

Where grief and sorrow now forgot.


Memorials too without a name

Speak there  of long forgotten fame;

The faded  memory all but gone

It’s structure here  now says anon.


Lord, in the memory of my mind

Help me to keep the truth I find

Within the offered bread and wine

Your blood your body to enshrine.


O sacred Ebenezer, here

I call to mind and find you near

As in the hope of every day,

I see anew your holy way.


“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, we must first begin to think as Christ thought.”  A A Allen


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