When we named Arabella we wanted to honour her beauty. It was the first name on our list of names. It stuck with us somehow (and even helped us through the bad times). Naming her in the womb symbolized her becoming a person. She was someone we started growing very attached to. Her name means beautiful, loving, lovable, and graceful. Of course. That makes sense.
We only found out after she was born that Arabella also means "yielding to prayer" - derived from 'orabilis' in Latin. That's interesting. Yielding to prayer. It took me a bit of time to think about it further. Yielding to prayer. What does that mean? I still think about it here and there.
Yield has two basic meanings. You can yield a profit. So essentially "produce". It can also mean to "give way to something". Kind of like how you would yield to traffic. You should slow down or stop in most cases since you don't have the right of way, right? So give way to prayer. Let prayer (and therefore God) take over. Let Him go and lead.
And this is how we deal. It's how Kiera and I have been dealing. Somehow through all of this we just know that God is with us. This is His child now and has been for a while.
God bless baby Arabella.
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