Nanette
root: Ann, Anne, from Hannah, an English form of Hannah
Hebrew: "graceful"
Expression - she loves a good joke
Personality - she develops one's aesthetic sense
Natural - love to dance the night away
Emotional - she is tender and gentle
Character - one who makes do with the little things in life
Physical - she has an angelic look about her
Mental - someone who is analytical
Motivation - dedicated, a supreme soul
A friend bought me a little name title, and this is what it said about my name. I remember once when I was in my early teens hearing that my name meant "Graceful", and one of my close relatives laughed outright and said rather harshly, "Graceful!? Ha! That isn't you!" I suppose what really hurt was it's true. I grew up a tomboy, and I had no "grace" to speak of. I did gymnastics, and I would suffer through the dance portion of my routine so I could get to the power parts. If you could say I was graceful in playing football, softball, soccer, basketball, tennis, wrestling......then maybe, but those don't usually count for "graceful" My hands are short and thick, and they move like they know what they're doing, but straight to the point - no softness or grace. I had callouses from playing on the monkey bars. "Grace" just didn't seem to point to me.
You read of names in the Bible and what those names meant. I always wondered how it was that people fit into those names. How did a Mom know that they would live up or down to the name given. Oftentimes God would change a name for someone. Abram became Abraham, Sarai became Sarah, Saul became Paul. I think of Jabez - one who brings pain. Now that's a name that would be tough to get over. He seems to have worked hard at living in opposition to the title.
Nanette - I have always loved my name! It is unique...there are not too many with this name, or spelled this way. I enjoy meeting Nanettes. What is graceful though....really? It is "Full" of "Grace".
Now, that is something that has nothing to do with the physical aspects of the word. Unfortunately, I really wasn't full of that either. Grace is unmerited favor. You don't deserve the favor, but get it anyway. I don't mean the favor like would you do something for me....I mean the favor as in love, or care, or likability....or forgiveness. I have been rather harsh in my perspective of "forgiveness of what people have done" I have been known to make statements like, "Well they got themselves into that mess.....they deserve what they get." "Too bad for them, they should have thought of that to start with" "They're not worth it anyway" Not a whole lot of grace there.
The funny thing is, I've always known of God's grace, well at least the logical, pat answer to the description of how God works. He's full of Grace, He gives Grace....."so grace my abound....." God is a God of grace. I have always known that! In fact I accepted His Grace at age 14 when I accepted His forgiveness for my sinful state of being. I was born a sinner - capable of the worst, incapable of correcting my position no matter how hard I tried in my "works" of filthy rags. I received God's Grace.
I have ,down through the years, continued receiving grace from God in my life. He's so good at it! Giving it is another thing. This I have worked on for years. It is, of course, much easier to give it when I keep myself in remembrance of the grace imparted to me for my many, many infractions! So as I think of my name, I know that I will never be graceful, but I most certainly can be "Full of Grace", not only received grace, but in giving grace to others.
So my name is Nanette, and lest one would think that the title of this blog is about me and my name - let me straighten that thought out. It's not about me, but about the Grace given to me, and I will be telling you more about that in the future!
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