His Name

What will ye that I shall give unto you?
3 Nephi 27:2

And they said, give us a name,
And He gave them His

     as The Bridegroom gives
          to his bride,
               Israel.
     as the father gives
          to his children—
               the Father of this world
               to the children of men.

And what’s in a name? A rose by any other . . .
But a name is more than this—it’s

     a powerful totem,
     the mark of who we are,
     Adam’s first task,
     Jacob’s transformation,
     the Word of creation.

And He gave us His Name as a key
To unlock our hearts to Him,

     to remember that He is the fulcrum,
     to know that His is the only name,
          in all the world of names,
               that lets us in.