Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Awesome Wasem

So this will be really short. I was at church a couple months ago and my Pastor, Pete Wilson, mentioned that when we go to to heaven we will be given new names. I wondered what mine would be. God spoke to me and asked if I remembered what my name was before I was a Christian?
I thought 'well, I was called Art the Fart'
What do they call you now that you are a Christian?
'they call me Awesome Wasem'
I felt a smile,
Wait, my name is Awesome?
Smile
Wow, Thats Awesome.
We both smiled,,,
Doesn't end there. The next Tuesday I was at work and ran into a colleague and he called me Awesome Wasem as he passed. I mentioned that it was cool he remembered my last name.
He said it wasn't hard since when I had given him my phone number he noticed that the phonetic spelling was aw-sem. He said he remembered it because my first initial and last name pronounced the word awesome.
56 years on the planet and I never realized that my name spelled aw-sem and always has.

When my kids were growing up we had a ritual. When you pulled my finger you got a hug. Around 8 they were invited to their first sleep over and when they came home in the morning the first thing they would say was, "You know that pull the finger thing? It not the same in every house."
My ex looking less than amused would say "You really waited 8 years for that joke?"
Yeppers?
I realized God had planned my name since the beginning.
I know He is planning something awesome in your life also. Have you found it? I would love to know what it is.