Elisha ChunMing

With each of our other children, including William, we scoured for names from movie credits, book authors, naming books, family names etc.  We then listed our favorites and brought them with us to the hospital.  It wasn't until our baby was born and we spent a little time with them that we settled on a name; sometimes from the list and sometimes something completely different.

Not thinking clearly, we thought we would do the same with ChunMing.  We both knew we wanted to keep his given name which means "king", "spring" and "bright" by the way, and he was just going to be stuck with "Cook" whether he liked it or not, but should we add a middle or first name? 

Once finding out that of course we needed to have his official name chosen prior to the adoption because that is what would be on all of the official paperwork, we had a dilemma; the debate was on.

The hunt began.  We had a short list, but nothing felt right.  Yesterday, recognizing the urgency due to the fact that I was holding on to some paperwork just because we had to pen in his given name, we had a little family meeting.  The desire was to find a name that fit his personality.  We went over each name on our list and its meaning, but none connected.  In a hurry, we stopped and had a prayer.  The answer was direct; his name would be Elisha, ChunMing, Cook.  We looked up Elisha in the Bible dictionary and it fit like a glove.  Besides, the story of Elisha praying for his servant to see their heavenly support is one of my favorite scripture stories.

Will he go by Elisha or ChunMing?  The choice is his.  Now we move on to the next step to bring our little "king" home.