what's in a name

We have decided on a name for our little guy!  He will be Andrew Curtis Dyer.  We will call him Andrew although we don't mind Andy or Drew as nicknames if he ever chooses to go by one of those.  We may call him 'A' for short.  We love Andrew for so many reasons.  In Greek it means "manly, warrior, courageous, strong."  Andrew the disciple of Jesus was one of the first disciples called by Jesus.  John 1: 40-42a says, "Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus.  The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, 'We have found the Messiah" (that is, the Christ).  And he brought him to Jesus."  We love that Andrew the disciple was outgoing and personable.  We love that he trusted in Christ with a childlike faith and that the first thing he did when he heard about Jesus was to go and tell his brother about him and bring him to Jesus.  Our prayer is that Andrew Curtis will also be quick to tell others about Christ.  Adam's outgoing personality is one of my favorite things about him - and I love that we will be naming our son after a disciple whose qualities embody my favorite things about my husband.  We are naming him Curtis after Adam's maternal grandfather, Curtis Carroll Jack Kemmer.  He is a strong and hard-working man who loves the Lord and loves his family - he just celebrated his 60th wedding anniversary!  We pray that Andrew would also be like his great grandfather, strong and hard-working - that he would persevere through adversity and not give up.  We are so excited to have a name for our little guy.  Please join us in praying that God would continue to knit Andrew together in my womb, that he would grow strong (it feels like he is by the way he kicks so hard and all the time) and would be healthy, and for his little heart - that he would know Jesus and trust in Him at a young age.