Is it just me who didn’t like their name when they were younger?👀

I know what you were probably thinking when you saw this title; that I was going to say, “a good name is better than riches.” Well, yes, a good name is better than riches, though I wasn’t going to say that.

Hi, my name is Dorcas and growing up, I didn’t like my name. That’s what I was going to say, lol. Rather, that’s part of what I was going to say.

Yeah, growing up, I didn’t like my name very much—sorry mom and dad😬—I liked those fancy-sounding ones and wanted one of them for a name. I don’t know what it was about the “fancy” names that caught me. I think I believed having a pretty name was all—maybe not all, but significantly the most part—I needed to be great, because great people have great names, cool names, pretty names. But I’m all good now, mom and dad😂👍🏽.

I thought it was all in the name, honestly. But was it really, though?🤔 Did they have great names or did they make their names great? Now that was a good question.

I eventually learned that it wasn’t the name that made a person great, but the person who made a name for himself with the one he was given. It was the things they did that made their names “great”.  So it’s not exactly my name that makes me great, but I make it great.

I get to make my name whatever I want it to be with the things I do and the choices I make:)

Fun fact, Jesus pioneered this😃↓

‭Philippians 2:5-11 NKJV‬

[5] Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, [6] who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, [7] but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. [8] And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the  point  of death, even the death of the cross. [9] Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, [10] that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, [11] and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.