Celia Joy arrived on January 10 at 7:34 p.m.! She was 7 lbs., 11 oz. and 19.5 inches.
Her name is very special to us. For a long time, I wanted to honor my mother in some small way. She's had a hard life, and she is the one who led me to Jesus. Her middle name is Cecilia. For a long time, I thought that was such a pretty name, and I really loved the "Celia" part of it.
When God started knocking on the door of our hearts that their might be another child, my thoughts naturally swerved to Celia. While Cecilia means "blind", Celia means "heaven". What a beautiful meaning, and it reminds us of the baby we have in heaven, lost to us in miscarriage November 2021.
Our first three kids all have Bible first names, and Celia, while a biblical concept, is not a Bible name, therefore we wanted the middle name to be a Bible name. After I wrote down a list of possibilities, Brian first mentioned Joy as standing out on that list. That was all I needed. I jumped on it, and Psalm 30:5 burst forth in my mind, "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." Well, that sold me on it. Our Celia is our joy after our sorrow, life after loss. We cannot say it better than that!
More to come on the story of her birth...
