05/21/2026
PART ONE:
What have you divided your life by? In other words, what have you memorialized by placing a marker in your life? You might say, “Before I had children, I went out every Friday night. But after my first child was born, it’s different.” That event divided your life with a before and after dynamic, didn’t it? We all have these moments in our lives. They are important events. They were important enough to change our lives. We don’t usually memorialize trivial events. We shove trivial events out of our memory. But the ones that change us for good or bad, stay with us. We say, “I will never forget that day as long as I live. I will never be the same.” Or we hear people say, “That day is etched in my memory.” Now if it is SCRATCHED INTO our memory, it is permanent, isn’t it?
Throughout history, humans have set up monuments to memorialize important events. Some bad-the USS Arizona Memorial, Ground Zero 9/11 Memorial, Oklahoma City’s Federal Building Memorial, and millions of War Memorials around the world mark tragedies that changed all of mankind.
In the Bible, Samuel set up a stone monument and called it Ebenezer. It was inscribed with “Thus far, the Lord has helped us.” That monument marks an event that changed the Israelites’ for the better. They defeated the Phlistines in battle with the help of the Lord. You may have beat cancer, had a baby, earned a degree, got a job. All remembered and celebrated.
Let me ask you again. What do you divide your life by? Keep that answer in mind as you ponder. And come back for PART TWO.
