Day: February 19, 2019

  Years ago I was playing a name game with some elementary-aged children at church.  I asked each child to say their first name, preceded by a word that described them and started with the same letter as their name.  So we had “marvelous Mary” and “sweet Sarah.”  I was “royal Robert” or something like that.  And then we got to Brock.  Brock was about six years old and was VERY quiet and timid.  When we came to him, he just looked at me and didn’t say a word.  After… Continue reading new name true name