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The heavens were at work

As you may have guessed MrMan isn't MrMan's real name. Two nights ago, it hit me how interesting it is that we named him what we did....

In July of 2005, the contemplation of naming our child entered my dreams. Long story short (for the longer story, read the entry of July 22, 2005), one of the names I briefly considered was Nevaeh. Not because it was "heaven" backwards. In fact, that was a reason against: "Child, you're the opposite of heaven."

So we threw that name out of the pool and kept fishing. The other night, as I was emailing someone MrMan's name and its meaning, it hit me - we ended up naming our child "heaven!" Yes, I've known the meaning of my child's name all this time, but I never connected it with my dream of four months before he was born. Until two nights ago. So even though I thought I was rejecting the idea from my dreams, it stuck with me enough to provide a name for MrMan.