Lifted: Thanksgiving Rock 2021

On My Mind

Each of you is to take up a stone…

to serve as a sign among you.

In the future, when your children ask you,

‘What do these stones mean?’

Tell them that…

These stones are to be a memorial to the people forever.

Joshua4:5-7

I paced up and down the gated driveway. I felt trapped inside the iron gate as cars whizzed by in this unfamiliar corner of the world. Even if I did venture beyond the gate, there was nowhere for me to go. A smaller mission would have to suffice. I continued to pace up and down the drive looking for the perfect stone. Nothing too ostentatious. I did have to fly home with it in my little orange suitcase. Flat, paintable, able to be cradled in the palm of my hand. The fascinating flora in our enclosed community felt likea lush green oasis. But in…

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