Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen and called its name Ebenezer; for he said, "Till now the LORD has helped us."
A stone by itself is nothing special. What makes this one worth mentioning is the name Samuel gave it: "Till now the LORD has helped us." Not "the LORD will fix everything from here." Just — up to this point, help came.
That's a smaller claim than most religious language makes, and maybe that's exactly why it's worth noticing. Samuel isn't declaring the future settled. He's marking a fact about the past: something got them this far that they didn't provide for themselves.
You don't need a full theology to ask the same question about your own life. Has anything gotten you this far that you can't fully take credit for — a break you didn't engineer, a person who showed up, a recovery you didn't see coming? You don't have to call it God yet. You just have to be honest that "until now" is worth naming.
What would you name your own "until now" stone, if you set one up today?
A short video on this is coming soon — for now, read on.