TRUE ADVENTURE

The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born. This is, indeed, the sublime and special romance of the family. It is romantic because it is a toss-up. It is romantic because it is everything that its enemies call it. It is romantic because it is arbitrary. It is romantic because it is there...The element of adventure begins to exist; for an adventure is, by its nature, a thing that comes to us. It is a thing that chooses us, not a thing that we choose...The supreme adventure is being born. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairytale. ~GK Chesterton, Heretics

Friday, February 02, 2007

Kai's Public Dedication

As we did with Suava, we decided to have Kai publicly dedicated to the Lord in our church. This simple ceremony was our public declaration that Kai belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ, and that we are committed to raising him in the Lord.


Here is an excerpt from Pastor Rob's blessing and exhortation:

"Names are important things. They have meanings. This baby's first name is Kai. "Kai" is Hawaiian for "Ocean." And since Jocelyn was raised on the east coast on the Atlantic Ocean in Nova Scotia, and Ben was raised on the west coast on the Pacific Ocean in British Columbia, they picked the name "Kai." May this dear little boy come to understand early THE OCEAN of the love of God for him.

"Could we with ink the ocean fill and were the skies of parchment made; were every stalk on earth a quill and every man a scribe by trade; to write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry, nor could the scroll contain the whole tho stretched from sky to sky." ~Frederick Lehman

This child's middle name is Thomas. A name chosen after Jocelyn's late father, grandfather to Kai. "Thomas" means "good company" from the Hebrew. May this precious boy grow to trust the Lord Jesus to be his personal Savior from sin and his Lord and Master. Then Kai will be "good company" for everyone he knows, because he will reflect the loveliness of Jesus, his Lord and Savior and Life.

Kai Thomas: Ocean - Good Company

The Bible verse I have chosen to give to baby Kai as a target toward which he can live his life is Matthew 8:27:

And the men marveled, saying, 'what kind of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?'

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1 comment:

Scorched and lovin it... said...

I was impressed with your pastor's use of the meaning behind names. I feel that we have lost so much by no longer attaching a historical and almost mystical past to our names; no hero to measure up to, no heritage to carry on in one's name.

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