(b) in Parenthesis: "What's in a name? How about eternity?" Part 2

**CORRECTION: Per my daughter, I humbly offer a point of clarification from Tuesday's entry: The name "Cohen" was actually suggested by Victoria, not Rick, and did not come from bible reading but her (from what I think I heard - covering my bases) noticing this name in some correspondence and thinking it would be a cool first name.**

"Now that you have made this name decision, I will share with you something about your dad and my family that you do not know, nor would or could have known. My dad's father's family name from Russia was originally Kaganovsky, which he shortened to Kagan before coming to America. When my grandfather arrived at Ellis Island in New York City he did not speak any English. He was having a difficult time pronouncing "Kagan," from which the agent heard and wrote down his last name as...Cohen. My father's (your grandfather) birth certificate reads "Morris Cohen." I stopped for a moment, paying attention to the tears welling up and beginning to spill from my eyes. "My father decided he wanted to honor his dad's name and changed his official name back to Murray Kagan. I never shared that with you before; I really never thought a thing about it. So without knowing anything about our history, by God's grace and love for this child and our collective families, you have named him after my dad. You have given my dad and me the greatest blessing I could have ever asked for. And by the way, today (September 12) is my father's birthday."

The tears rained across the window of our hearts; it's still pouring.

So what? I do not consider it my business to know what and how you think about the whole God thing. Believer, follower, seeker, lost, found, atheist, agnostic, cynic, Jew, name-that-denomination, sect, cult or culture; it matters not to me. But here's what I do care about (what matters to me) and what I have come to know and offer as a gift for you to consider:

I have spent most of my life selling one or another thing, agenda or product;
I have spent most of my life believing that I can do more to make things better for...you name it;
I have squandered all the greatest treasures I've had in my life, in pursuit of having the good life;
Through being a wanderer, seeking life as a man of faith through a Judeo-Christian perspective, I believe I am called to live through the God of all people;
There is NO WAY IN HELL (get over it) I would have not taken the opportunity to try and insert or seed the "M" or "Cohen" hint either when my mother asked and/or when Victoria shared with me the two name contenders;
I happened to give it (control, agenda, judgment) away, so that I could give it (life, heart, honor) a way to happen;
His first name is first name is Utah: named for a man Rick deeply loved and misses;
His middle name is Cohen: named for a man Victoria loved and misses.