The Words of This Life

The Words of This Life
Acts 5.17-26

When our second child was born, we had decided on names. If it was a boy, it would be Oliver; if it was a girl, it would be Emily. Well, it was a girl (we got our Oliver later); but when we looked at her, we both knew she wasn’t Emily. Who was she? Puzzled, we racked our brains.

‘What’s she called?’ asked the nurse as we went back to the ward.
‘We don’t know!’ we replied. ‘We’ll tell you in a while.’
We sat there with this little scrap in her cot, and went right back through our long list, alphabetically. When we arrived at the Rs, we knew who she was. It didn’t feel as though we were making something up; it was more as if we were discovering something that was already true. Rosamund. A beautiful name for a beautiful young lady...

Taken from Acts for Everyone Part 1 by Tom Wright