What's In A Name?

These days Sarai is really into pointing out everything she sees while we are driving to and fro and if she doesn't know the name of something, she will ask me, "Is that?" Well, last night we were headed up to the Harbor and she pointed at the geese in the sky and told me "God made that." Then she pointed at the moon and said the same thing. But the question that followed perplexed me a bit. She asked, "God's name mommy?" At first I thought she said "dog's name?" but after she repeated it, I understood her . And to be honest, I wasn't sure how to answer it! I said, "Well honey, we call God, God." Now isn't that just brilliant :-) I think she was looking for a middle and last name since we have been talking to her a lot about her own. Mike wasn't with us in the car so this morning I posed the question to him. Of course Mr. Bible Answer Man looked at Sarai and said, "We call God: Father and Yaweh and Adonai and Jehovah Jirah (he also told Sarai that last name has a fun song you can sing with it). Sarai got a kick out of repeating all these other names back to Mike, some more correct than others, but I'm not sure that will satisfy her question. Since she is only 2, this topic may not resurface again for awhile but I'm starting to think about all the other questions that I'm sure she will come up with in the days, months and years to come. Now I just pray that God will continue to teach me how to answer these questions so that her little heart can learn to love Him as much as I do.