(For the girl I lit the candles for)

Did I mention that I love your names?

As an initial matter, middle names fascinate me.  In some ways, they tell me more about a person than their first.  I’m not sure when I learned yours, but it made me love you even more.  Who has double grace in their names?

Only you. 

They fit you.

I know you don’t live up to them all the time.  No one does.  We grow into our names over a lifetime.  But yours are pure beauty and forgive me, pure grace.

I don’t really understand grace.  I sought and valued justice and fairness more up to this point.  But we all yearn for and desire grace.  When it shows up in our life, it is like the arrival of spring after a long winter, the sunlight breaking through the storm clouds, the relief of pain.