Mornings with Jesus

THURSDAY, JANUARY 16

EVERY TIME I READ THIS Scripture I get excited: Jesus knows my name! I am important to Him! One day, I decided to look up the meaning of my, , or , but my mom wasn’t thinking of any of those meanings when she named me. As she tells it, the story went something like this: “Sammy Davis Jr.’s daughter’s name was Tracy. I’d never heard the name before, and I liked it.” So there was nothing deep about how I got my name.

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