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PARENTS ARE used to naming their children by circumstances of birth or their experiences around that time. Names can affect, remind, direct, motivate, or even serve as an instrument of covenant. I was told the story behind my own name – Gabriel –...
My mother was told that she would conceive a baby boy and a great messenger of God and that he shall be called Gabriel; that he would impact the world for Christ. And so many other instructions came with that which included not shaving my head for the first three years and so on.
Parents are used to naming their children by circumstances of birth or their experiences around that time.
It is rarely acknowledged – though British poet Wilfred Owen and composer Benjamin Britten do so explicitly in the poem “The Parable of the Old Man and the ...
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