Angels on Earth magazine

Twice a Blessed

WHAT’S IN A NAME? How to choose the right one? We’ve been thinking a lot about that in our family lately, because we’re to be blessed by two—two!—grandsons this year.

Silas Hamlin was born on July 3, to our son Tim and his wife, Henley. Wisely enough, they chose not to share in advance the name they had picked, knowing of course, that before the fact they’d have to hear our opinions. At the baby’s birth, though, we thought the (which I confess I’ve never read) and Silas in the Bible, one of the members of the early church.

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