Accepting The Name
In 2018, I made this decision to drop my name and shorten my last name. It was a nice way to start fresh without having to make drastic changes. I didn’t feel like I was worthy of the name my dad gave me when I was born. Aundria means to be strong, and I was anything but. I wanted to grow into her, with the correct definition of who God created her to be: strong, sure, comfortable. Names are funny, they’re finicky, and it took time, but now this is me.
This Is Aundria.
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31 “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.[b] 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,“For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
ROMANS 8: 31-39