What's in a Name

Have you ever thought about what’s in a name?

Can it not say something about you, good or lame?

Have you considered the power it portrays?

Does it not stick with you all of your days?

Names have the power to hurt or to heal,

Names can reveal or even have appeal,

Names can denote an identity,

Names can also be an obscenity.

What names do others give you?

What are false and what are true?

What names squash you or even crush?

And some names can make you blush?

Names hurt, names crush, names blame,

Names conceal, names deceive, names shame,

Names lift up, names demote, names glorify,

Some names terrify, and some just horrify.

But God has given you a name at your birth,

It denotes who you are and what's your worth.

His name for you is one no one can take away,

So live up to it, be it, display it today.