By any other name…

This week’s assigned Bible Read­ing was Gen­e­sis chap­ters 17–20.
After read­ing chap­ter 17, we started talk­ing about how Jeho­vah changed Abram and Sarai’s names.  The girls didn’t quite under­stand the rea­son for the name change, so that lead to a con­ver­sa­tion about the mean­ing of names.

I then looked up our names online to find the mean­ings of our names:

DD1’s name means Cut­ting Rival
DD2’s name means Rye Clear­ing and My God is an oath
DS’ name means Red Lathe Oper­a­tor
DH’s name means He will add, Brave Boar, and Will, Desire, Hel­met, Pro­tec­tion
My name means holder of the heel and Laurel

That was so fun!

So, today is On The Watch Wednesday -

Today we read the arti­cle in Feb 1 Watch­tower about Abra­ham & Isaac, and the sac­ri­fice he was asked to make.
That lead to a con­ver­sa­tion about show­ing our faith, no mat­ter what.  I explained that some par­ents have to make dif­fi­cult deci­sions con­cern­ing their chil­dren, if they’re ever faced with a blood issue.
I really enjoyed the point about Abraham’s deed was a fore glean to Jesus being sent to die for us!
Even though my girls are only 7 & 5, they really seemed to fol­low and under­stand.

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  • admin says:
    January 29, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    I know that arti­cle!! I had actu­ally read a small part of it dur­ing our dis­cus­sion that day -
    We’re going to read the whole arti­cle next week for WW!

    Thanks for your com­ment — I love the idea of lis­ten­ing to the MP3 in the car! I’m going to have to try that ;-)

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  • masterpiecemom says:
    January 29, 2009 at 9:52 am

    one of the recent mags (can’t remem­ber which right now) has an arti­cle on the mean­ing of names. Your kids might find that one inter­est­ing con­sid­er­ing your recent discussion.

    We heard it in the van on mp3 which is why i don’t know which mag it is.

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