What's in a Child's Name?

Is there such thing as a belated tag?? Well, there is now. Dancing Queen tagged us a few moons ago (actually not that long la... still within one moon). This tag is to tell the blogger world why we chose the names Joshua and Jessica for our lovely kids.

JOSHUA
Upon conception, we bought and borrowed books on names for children and also surfed the web. We made up a list and I still remember Russel was one name that Daddy really like, besides Joshua. Daddy actually has a nephew called Joshua too and he was just good pals with Daddy (Daddy and nephew age gap was not too wide to be able to play together when young!). We also had names starting with letter "A" in our list but for the lights of Daddy, Daddy cannot remember them now! So how did we arrive at the name Joshua? Before he was borned, we finally decided on Joshua because of its meaning.

Joshua means "Jehovah (God) saves". It was very appropriate as we wanted to leave a legacy with our son that whenever he thinks of his name, he will remember that God is the one who came to us to save us from our sins. Salvation is so important! Another reason why we chose J is because we love Jesus so much that we decided to use the letter "J" for the names of our children.

JESSICA

This brings us to the second name; Jessica. Now this one is very interesting. When Jessica was conceived, we did not mentioned this good news to our congregation in church until much later. HOWEVER, one of our brothers in-Christ at our church had a dream that Mummy was with child and the baby is a girl! I mean at that time we didin't even know the baby was a girl yet. So when we shared with the church the good news, this brother then told us his dream. Jut imagine our delight! So when the time came to scan scan, we saw that the baby is a girl baby.

Back to the name. We had a dilemma on the name as we could not quite agree on the baby's name. We knew the baby would be a girl and we wanted the name to start with the letter 'J'. So after many many debates, we came to an agreement on the name only in the labour room (just after delivery... yup, with all the blood and everything). Then when we shared with the church her name, guess what? This brother again told us that he had another dream and that the name for the baby shall be Jessica!That was simply wonderful as it was a confirmation from God Himself on the child's name! Praise the Lord!!

Jessica means "Jehovah (God) beholds" or 'wealthy' or 'gift'. We liked the first definition that our daughter is our God's beloved! She is loved.... (well, God loves all of us and beholds us!). Somehow, the name Jessica is so befitting for her.

Ok, so I have explanied the meaning of the children's name and also why we chose them. I guess this is the end of the tag.

Who shall I tag? No more la.... tired already. ;D