The Name

Names are the first description of a person. When you meet someone the first thing and sometimes the only thing you find out is their name. So we wanted to pick the perfect one for our baby.  When we found out I was pregnant we immediately started discussing names. We each had some picked out but only a couple we both agreed upon. We both thought we were having a girl so we had a definite name picked out for a girl, up until week 20 when we found out we were having a boy.  For me it was really important to pick a name with great meaning.

Caedmon is a name we talked about long before I was pregnant. I read a book where one of the character's names is Kade. I love his character and his passion for God so I asked Jordan what he thought of the name. He liked it and mentioned the band Caedmon's call and so we looked up the meaning of the name Caedmon and it was "wise warrior". What a name! We both loved it. It's hard to name someone and have it be their name forever. There's a lot of pressure in picking the "right" name. We wanted something unique but not something that was so far off that he would hate his name growing up.

Jae-Sung was Jordan's name before he was adopted. His biological grandmother chose his name. It means "existent star" in Korean. To me the name has a lot of sentimental value. I love that Jordan was adopted because if he hadn't been I would have never met him but it also breaks my heart to think about how much he remembers and misses his family. So I wanted to honor where Jordan came from and the roots that are now in Caedmon. I want Caedmon to grow up knowing about where his dad is from and how he got here. It means a lot to me.

There is one famous Caedmon.
Wikipedia states "Caedmon is the earliest English poet whose name is known. An Anglo-Saxon who cared for the animals and was attached to the double monastery of Streonæshalch (Whitby Abbey) during the abbacy (657–680) of St. Hilda (614–680), he was originally ignorant of "the art of song" but learned to compose one night in the course of a dream, according to the 8th-century monk Bede. He later became a zealous monk and an accomplished and inspirational religious poet. His story is related in the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ("Ecclesiastical History of the English People") by Bede who wrote, "[t]here was in the Monastery of this Abbess a certain brother particularly remarkable for the Grace of God, who was known to make religious verses, so that whatever was interpreted to him out of scripture, he soon after put the same into poetical expressions of much sweetness and humility in English, which was his native language. By his verse the minds of many were often excited to despise the world, and to aspire to heaven."


We loved this! We have prayed many times that Caedmon would love the Lord with all his heart, his mind, and his soul and love others with so much grace.  We pray also that he would be a "wise warrior" for Jesus. Here is Caedmon's hymn. I hope it blesses you today.

Caedmon's Hymn (translated from Old English)
Now let me praise the keeper of Heaven's kingdom,
The might of the Creator, and his thought,
The work of the Father of glory, how each of wonders
The Eternal Lord established in the beginning.
He first created for the sons of men
Heaven as a roof, the holy Creator,
Then Middle-earth the keeper of mankind,
The Eternal Lord, afterwards made,
The earth for men, the Almighty Lord. <3<3

Here's what Caedmon looked like when we got to see him for the first time.