If you attended church as a young kid as I did - in my smocked dress, uncomfortable shoes, long braids tickling my itchy neck- holding the hymnal tightly so I wouldn't drop it, not wanting to interrupt the very GOD of all things who was PRESENT in our midst, you probably know the hymn Come, Thou Fount. The second verse was my favorite because of the phrase, Here I raise my Ebenezer, which I related to George C Scott, my favorite Ebenezer of all time whom my brother and I woul

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