Ebenezer: A Lemon Black Sesame Shortbread (half-dozen)

Dee went on a Civil Rights Pilgrimage during the Summer of 2005. One of the most impactful moments was visiting the Edmund Pettus Bridge. And though the late John Lewis (the star of what we publicly know about the Selma to Montgomery Marches) is one of her personal heroes, she has never forgotten that it was the women who got the job done. This month marks the 59th anniversary of the series of marches we have come to refer to as Bloody Sunday. So we have made a cookie in the style of an Ebenezer (literal meaning Stone of Help, figurative meaning memorial stone). The cookie is meant to call to mind of the monument of stones at the foot of the Edmund Pettus bridge in memory of Amelia Boynton Robinson, Marie Foster, Annie Lee Cooper, and the many nameless women who made the movement possible. The carving on the stone installation is from a passage in the Hebrew Bible in which the Israelites had just crossed the parted Jordan River on dry land. It reads as follows When your children shall