Bubblingbrooks Journey - Salut!

[Bubblingbrooks]

 

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[MorelCabin]

Okay...did a quick history lesson...I get it. They are both. Kind of like the Catholic natives here.
Best deal is a Blessing cerimony once she is in your hands. That makes her a child of Jesus under you and your husband. No worries. Keep her name unless you really want to change it, but changing it may prove disrespectful to the Natives so best let it lie for the moment anyway and perhaps speak to your pastor about it

The disrespect is what I am worried about. I do not want to compromise things in the eyes of the family elders and ICWA.
We will speak with the men in our meeting for sure.

One thing that we intend to make clear to the tribes, is that we will strive to make sure she learns Yupik.
English has always been a second language for them.

Well, simply put...how do you get rid of a 'curse'? With a Blessing of course She has a wonderful name...and a Biblical one at that!

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

 

[MorelCabin]

She is a very Blessed little girl to be recieving two great parents who care so much about her spiritual life with Jesus!

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

 

[MorelCabin]

Babies do best in parents rooms for the first year...mine all stayed with me.
I ahve a story to share with you along the lines of crossing our faith with other religions...and Blessings vs all the other stuff.

When I married my husband his parents insisted that we get married in the Catholic church, by a Catholic priest or they would not see us as married. I was very very much against that, and very fearful of that, having been raised Brethren...but I wasn't given much choice and wanted to marry this wonderful man who had given up his Catholic faith but hadn't moved oever to the Brethren faith as of yet. He was fence sitting...and still is...but that is another story.
Anyway, not sure of what to do about it, I went to my father (who is a preacher) and the elders of my church and asked for thier Blessing...which they gave.
I also took all of the Catholic symbolisms out of the wedding cerimony and the priest was good enough to allow me to have a more "nondenominational' cerimony
During the cerimony however, he said *I* bless you both. That made me very uncomfortable...so silently I prayed to the Lord to over ride that 'blessing' and bless us only under God, not under the priest.

Now a few years later I found out the priest was being charged with molestation and I was very very upset, but I also knoew that the Lord had blessed my marriage fully and I had no worries.
Hope you understand what I am trying to say here
I am very blessed to have married the wonderful man I did, despite the rough beginnings.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

 

[VickiLynn]

Sounds like things are moving along nicely. I'm so happy for you. As far as her name, lots of people are named after dead ancestors. She has a beautiful name. I wouldn't sweat it. In the privacy of your home and family, the "spirit living on" stuff can mean as much or little as you want it to. Some day, when your little girl asks you about her name, I think she will be happy to know you honored her heritage, and by then, you will have taught her your beliefs.

 

[savingdogs]

If her genetic family believes something "lives on" because of a name it doesn't have to influence how YOU feel if you don't let it. You need not even share that information with her if you don't feel it is a good thing. I know many families of many faiths that name children old traditional names from their ancestry. You could always just say she was named after an aunt from her biological family. True and enough said.
Sometimes children don't need to know the whole story till they are older. I think if you loved the name you should still use it and let that family believe what they wish, you will be teaching this child YOUR ways. Especially when Mary Katherine could not be a more beautifully Christian name and, well, you liked it so much! I would try to put their meaning behind the name out of your mind and remember her being named after the mother of Jesus....