What's In A Name?

Every morning I begin my day with a Bible reading. Throughout the Bible are some of the most beautiful names I've ever heard.

In addition to how beautifully the names roll off the tongue, are the meanings that go with each name. Sometimes the meanings were good...other times...not so good. For example, Jerahmeel means, the mercy, or the beloved, of God yet Jobab means sorrowful, hated. Almost makes you wonder why anyone would give their child a name with negative connotations. But that's the way it was back then.

These days children are named after alcoholic beverages, food products, and all kinds of ridiculousness.

Although my name has meaning...(my initials are J D M S which actually represent something), I often wonder what I would have been like, who I would have been, if my mother had gone with her original name for me: Soledad Rose.

I love the sound of that name. I'm just not sure that I love what it means. Yet sometimes I think I'm living out the meaning of THAT name more-so than my actual one.

Soledad means loneliness, solitude, isolation. I find that to be so very fitting when you consider how lonely I have been on this journey called life.

So if my mom had gone with choice number 1, I would be "Loneliness Rose." Sounds so much nicer before the translation, doesn't it?

How 'bout you...

Let the DIALOGUE begin: What's YOUR name, and does it mean something?

Talk to me!

Til next time...