Our Daughters Name

Our little Zafua will be named Hadassah Zafua _____ DeSarro.
We had been thinking of the name Kamara. In March Matthew said "I think she needs a Hebrew name, someone from the Bible." Matty mentioned Esther. We looked it up and it was Persian. We like who Esther was and the way she lived her life to never forget about her people and from where she came. That night we watched the Veggie Tail of Esther and Nest Ent. video of Esther. Matt then read the book of Esther. He called me into the family room where he said "Amanda look her name was not Esther it was Hadassah. She was adopted by Mordici and he changed her name to Esther so she could go to the palace." We called my dad to look it up on his high speed Internet and tell us what Hadassah meant. He said it means "from a TREE." Look on another site- "OK it means from a flowering Myrtle TREE." I was not so sure about the name or meaning. Cecilia heard me talking about it with Matt and my dad. She piped in "Mommy God knows our babies Opia name and when you hear her name YOU WILL KNOW WHAT TO NAME HER!"
On April 17Th we got the referral for our darling daughter and the first words I heard about her is "her name is Zafua which means TREE because she was found under a tree wrapped in clothes of many colors." OK Lord, wow we know her name is to Hadassah and we believe God has shown us clearly. We believe she will have a heart like Esther and never forget the plight of her people and one day we pray she will use the resources of where she is to help those she came from. We know she was born at such a time as this. She is a survivor found under a tree at only 1 day old miles from a main road. She will have a forever family is one of 400 out of 4.5 million. She was born at such a time as this! God has hand picked our Hadassah for us and we praise him!!!! And we love the name, it has grown on us, it is so soft and beautiful. It just flows out of our mouths. When Matty prays for our daughter Hadassah Zafua my heart melts. We may call her Haddie? We just love our darling Hadassah...
Oh also is from a valley that sounds very much like Hadassah.