Happy Birthday E!

Many of you know that, two years ago, I got Ebenezer from a Denver Seminary student who worked part-time in the Admissions Office.  He got Ebenezer, whose name means 'stone of hope' in Hebrew and also figures prominently in the hymn Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing, from a homeless man standing in front of Starbucks. 

E was so small and fluffy when I first got him.  His first litter box was a small plastic shoebox, similar to the ones in which I store cardmaking supplies.  His eyes were grey when he first arrived, then they turned green.  Now they are gold.  Ebenezer tips the scales at 13 pounds, whereas Isabelle weighs about six and one half pounds.  He's one big boy!

Adopting Ebenezer two years ago, and Isabelle three years before that, has been a real game changer for me.  I know this sounds funny to some, but the only things I've loved more than my cats are God, Jesus, and my paternal grandfather.

That Was Then

This is Now

Well-Versed

Towards the end of December, I blogged in earnest about Living Proof Ministries' Scripture Memory Challenge.  First, the good news.  I'm still memorizing Scripture.  Last week, I began working on Verse 6.  Now, for the bad news.  The cover is about to fall off the spiral notebook in which I so laboriously pasted my Bible Verses.  Yesterday, I picked up a new spiral from the grocery store.

The grocery store closest to the Little Condo on the Prairie is questionable at best - whether you are seeking carrots without mold or scripture memory notebooks - but that's beside the point.  I dutifully chose a small notebook containing perforated 3x5 cards.  The cover was ugly, so I dressed it up a bit.

The theologically-minded amongst you assume I chose the butterfly to correspond to something profound like Dead in Sin, Alive in Christ or the Easter Story - where the chrysallis symbolizes the Tomb in which Jesus' lay (or is it laid or lain?) and the butterfly symbolizes the Resurrection.  Not really.  I keep my card making supplies in four plastic carts on wheels, and had been staring at that butterfly for months wondering what I was going to do with it.  Now I know.