Written in stone.....

Written in stone....


Several years ago.....oh wait, that was 22 years ago,  where have they gone?.......we loaded up our suburban and and travel trailer with 5 kids, no dogs, and two adults and drove cross country...two of the riders were only going as far as Atlanta, Georgia to catch a bus the Teen missions in Florida.

We drove down through Colorado to New Mexico through Utah....the arches, the rivers, .....canyons....ancient Indian ruins....all written in stone....over time....by men and by God.......with one of our first stops in Gallop to visit a gravesite of a team member of our son and his friend.  Written in stone...his name , young age....

Drove across the continental divide, written in stone...a marker.....

Roads going on and on, written and made of stone...across the country.....

Leaving our adventurers in Atlanta, enthused about another summer with TMI...one to Nepal and the other to New Zealand ......we headed for Washington, D.C., and other historical spots....

Every monument, statue had words written in stone, the majority----words from the Bible....whole verses quoted.....chiseled into the hard stone for all to read down through time.....a testimony to the lives lived, their foundation.....our foundation.....

The Ten Commandments raised over the heads of government ....verses, over and over again....

During the whole trip, we remarked, over and over....do people read these inscriptions...take In the meaning of these words....or are their hearts, stone as well...
Gods word promises not to come back void when sent forth.....it is living, working, alive.....

Now our names are written in stone....my grandparents, parents, husband were real living people....names in stone forever to be remembered...what do those words say....tell others.....

Do they lead others to desire to have their name written in the Book of life....to be opened later...that is where we ultimately want our names....not just to be remembered but for eternal life....in heaven with God.....not stone, but life everlasting....

Thank YOU that You know those whose names are written in stone, but more importantly those whose names are written In the book of life...having believed in the risen Savior...let those words of scripture written in stone show others the way to those written in your Holy Bible, desiring You.....

Exodus 24:12
The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

Exodus 32:16
The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

2 Corinthians 3:3
You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.


Philippians 4:3
Yes, and I ask you, my true companion, help these women since they have contended at my side in the cause of the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my co-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Revelation 3:5
The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.



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