God sees the future and He is interested in the details of your life

When we found out we were expecting our first baby, 26 years ago, Grant and I decided not to find out if the baby was a boy or a girl. We chose both a boy’s name and a girl’s name. It turned out that we had a girl and named her Kelsey, however, had we had a boy, he would have been christened Joshua.

We followed the same process when I was pregnant with Zoë, who was born two years and three months later. At that time though we had decided that if we had a boy, he would be named Andrew. The reason we changed from Josua to Andrew, for the second baby, was that Grant’s second name is Andrew and Grant’s dad’s name was Andrew and we’d decided to give the second baby a family name, if the baby was a boy.

We were delighted with our girls and both received the girls’ names that we had chosen. At the time I thought nothing more of it. However, names are significant. I remember from before Zoë was even born, when I was pregnant with her, I began praying for Kelsey’s husband one day. I also started praying for Zoë’s future husband after she was born. I prayed that the right, godly men would come across their paths at the right time.

Then about two years ago during my quiet time, God highlighted to me that both the girls were in serious relationships and that Kelsey (our older daughter who we would have named Joshua) was dating a man called Andrew and Zoë (our younger daughter who would have been named Andrew) was dating a man named Joshua. I was quite overwhelmed and I kept it to myself for about a week pondering this before I shared it with Grant. He was so excited at this revelation, he even shared this with the girls.

Then Joshua proposed to Zoë and they got married in December 2024.  Last week, Andrew proposed to Kelsey. I just had this thought again about the names and even the order of the names: Joshua, which is what we would have named our firstborn, became the firstborn son-in-law into our family and now Andrew, which is what we would have named our second born, will be the second-born son-in-law into the family.