When you skip a stone, you make a wish. You hope for something. You take a great risk that a heavy stone will glide on water when it seems destined to sink. For that moment of stillness, you believe it is possible and with persistence, it finally skips.
Something that seemed impossible starts to feel very doable.
When you stack a stone, you pile memories. All the good, bad and in between ones of your life.
The stone represents the adolescent years, the broken years, and the joyful years.
In Joshua, God tells Joshua to gather twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe, and then to grab heavy stones to make a foundation as a memorial. The memorial would stand as a reminder for the generations to come of God’s miraculous deliverance.
Joshua 4:6-7, God tells us the purpose of the stones – “to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’ tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.”
God says the same thing about our stones.
These stones are meant to tell the story of past, present, and future; where we came from, how we play a role in God’s kingdom now, and God’s will for our lives later down the road.
My stones are very personal and they are my story of redemption in God’s eyes.
One stone is my anecdote of feeling God’s worth that’s unfailing. Another is my narrative that I am fully known by the one who knows the amount of hairs on my head.
They all tell my story that He is my joy that wakes me up and gives me the chance to say God is good all the time and all the time God is good.
I challenge you to make a pile of stones somewhere that is meaningful to you as a memorial.
Let these stones represent all the experiences you overcame, all the laughter that is present in your home, and some secrets you hold close to you.
*AB*