Child of God

A child was named for me last week.  A new human being bears my name.  It is not a minor thing this naming a human after another.  It is more like a compact, an agreement between father, mother, child and me.  It goes something like this.  They agree that my life is worthy and the worthiness is titled, Lee.  I agree that their new life is worthy of the titles as he is to manifest the qualities the father and mother see in me.  It is also a gift of thanksgiving from the parents to me and a pact that I will continue to live a life modeled to be watched and imitated by the son.  The entirety of this compact is based on one absolute Truth; anything good and worthy of emulating in the father, the mother, the son or myself is due completely, wholly and with all gratefulness on Him who lives inside of us and His manifestations in us are those that are the ink on the compact.  It is this ink, God in Three, that will eventually live in Lee Alan that will someday be passed from him to his which will be titled his name sake.  It is the way of God, passing Himself from generation to generation, for all earthly time, His compact that we are literally His children, here and forevermore—the children, Lee Alan, child of God.