name #3

amazing. our 2nd daughter has a name! i feel like i have to give a history.

girl names have never come easy and after naming our first "alaythia," we knew we couldn't go with.... well i'll refrain from giving examples to avoid offending, but you get the idea.

if you've never heard us say alaythia's name, you may not be sure how to even say it. phonetically it is: uh-lay-th-e(long e)-yuh. her name is the actual greek word for truth. in translation from greek to english, it looks like ALETHEIA and is pronounced with emphasis in another spot. giving her a unique name, we decided to spell it as phonetically as we could. we went with grace as a middle name. truth and grace, what we hope her life is characterized by.

we had liked the name for a while, but were unsure of it. one night, sitting in a membership class for church, matt wrote down 'alaythia grace godshall' on a piece of paper and slipped it over to me. it was at that moment that we both just knew. and that was it for her name.

on sunday we were in church and i saw matt turn over his bulletin and start to write. now, matt's not a note taker, so i was curious. the next thing i knew, he slipped a paper over to me and had written a name down on it. and i knew. just like that. she had a name.

we decided her name would be another greek word, the word for wisdom. this time we decided to keep the pronounciation exact. no changing it this time. her middle name, like grace, is something that we know we need. something we long to have more of. her name is:

SOPHIA HOPE GODSHALL

wisdom and hope, what we pray her life mirrors.