Spooky

What's in a name? Why did I name Noah, well, Noah? I think we all wonder sometimes why we were named what we are named!

Why Noah? Well, names were not coming to us - we had read that silly names books over and over again and we didn't like hardly anything. We both wanted to use James (b/c it's my dad's name) but I didn't want that to be his first name. I wanted him to have something all his own.

My parents have a HUGE Noah's ark picture in their living room and it's absolutely beautiful - (Mom - I want it when you are done with it ;) )...anyway, Jason looked at it and said, "What about Noah?" - me, I said, "NO ABSOLUTELY NOT! All I can think of is an OLD man - I can't see it being a cute little boys name!" I didn't know any Noah's at the time - I'd heard of Noah Wyle from ER - but even Jason had to remind me that was his real name. I had no idea! Anyway, I was somewhat against it, but then it started to grow on me.

Noah's name means comforter (Gen. 5:29), he was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God (Gen.6:9) - I would love that to be the description of my little man. And Jason's personal favorite is when the earth was flooded for 150 days..."But God remembered Noah" and all the animals and sent a strong wind and the water receded (Gen. 8:1). The Lord kept his promise to Noah! Those were the reasons we named him "Noah."

Yesterday, after church he came up to me pretty excited and said, "Mom, I know exactly why you named me Noah!" I said, "Oh really, Why?" He said he was reading the story (during church) and he said the Flood actually happened on his birthday! He said, "It said on the second month and the seventeenth day the flood started." I said, "that's really not the reason we named you Noah - I don't think we could have planned something like that (and to tell the truth I didn't quiet believe him)! But sure enough, Gen. 7:11 reads, "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened." THAT'S NOAH'S BIRTHDAY! Feb. 17 - and before all you scholars tell me it wasn't Feb. I realize that - but it sure is neat that it reads to us like it was in Feb.



I think I could have read that my whole life and never put two and two together - unless it said, "Feb. 17th - on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened." - So, I'm not very observant!



NEAT!! I love that Noah!