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Originally Posted by Ohio
I had assumed at first that your forum name was Chinese, perhaps one of your children's names or a place where you lived.
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Names of my children?
My oldest son is named Gurion, it is hebrew for Lion cub. I named him after David Ben-Gurion, the architect of the modern Jewish state. Now the Chinese could never pronounce his name, so they called him “Glorion”. Which he hated. So if he ever gets too full of himself and you need him to get his feet back on the ground a quiet “glorion” will usually snap him out of it. His middle name is Seal (this is from my “doctrinal” period). I tied this into the tabernacle (sealskin), the Spirit, (sealing of the spirit), etc.
My daughter is Poiema (It is from Ephesians, the Greek word for Poem). But I just call her Potato. Her middle name is based on a story I didn’t want anyone to forget. Her mother went to a chinese fortune teller who told her she was going to have a son. I was stunned that a “Christian” would do such a thing and knew that God would not honor this. I initially was going to call her “See a son” with a mocking tone. However, that is of course Reuben and I didn’t want to name my daughter after him. So, after a little prayer I changed it to “See The Son” or SeeSon. I capitalized the s in Son, so it is an homage to the “double S spirit” for anyone that remembers that.
And my youngest is Zion (a little nod to my Geology background). Now he has both the best and the worst middle name at the same time. My wife was really impressed with what I had shared with her about the precious stones in the New Jerusalem. She wanted to name her son after one of the precious stones. I was unable to dissuade her so now if anyone asks I just tell them his middle name is “spitfire”. But he will have to learn to keep this to himself because if anyone ever finds out what his middle name really is he’ll never be able to live it down.
You may think the middle names are really lousy names, that was intentional. I always told my kids I only had one request of them, that is that they don’t treat me the way I treated my father. (Needless to say I don’t want my kids changing their names to their middle names. -- you had to have been there)