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Sunday, August 9, 2026

SECRECY #15 - All Caps Name

SECRECY #15 - All Caps Name

Today is the fifteenth part in the study about "secrecy."

Have you ever noticed that your name is in all capital letters on official documents like driver's license, bank statements, and on bills? I have always thought that was strange. Well, today we are going to study "names" and find out if there is a reason for the all capital letters. We will start by studying what the world thinks about our name and then we will finish this post with a Bible study about names (God's Name and our names).

Our topic today is "All Caps Name".

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The World's View on Names

The reason why "the world" capitalizes our names is not a good thing. It is something called:

"Capitis Diminutio" (which means "diminished capacity")

This definition is taken from "Black's Law Dictionary":

- from Roman Law - the extinguishing (whole or in part) of a person's former status and legal capacity. Three levels of condition/changes of state: maxima, media and minima. Let's detail what each state means and also how a person's name would appear for each level (we will use the name "John Doe").

1. capitis diminutio maxima = loss of liberty, citizenship and family (slave status).

JOHN DOE

2. capitis diminutio media = loss of citizenship and family (still having personal liberty)

John DOE

3. capitis diminutio minima = loss of family (citizenship and liberty remain).

John Doe

According to those descriptions, if our name appears in "all caps", then that is equal to a slave status.

Here is a link to more information on all caps (copy and paste the link to get it to work):

https://www.scribd.com/document/65439156/Capitis-Diminutio-Maxima-Name-in-ALL-CAPITALS

This should not make you afraid after you read what God says about names (even if there really is a nefarious implication behind our names being in all caps).

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God's View On Names

Firstly, Let's look at Jesus' Name - it is the Name above all Names (read Scripture passage below - "every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord"):

It does NOT matter what race or religion you are - all you have to do is call on His Name and you will be saved (see verses below):

What about our names? We are precious to our Heavenly Father and to Jesus! A few years ago, I did a series about who Jesus is - in Part4 we learned that Jesus is "The Good Shepherd" (click HERE to read "Jesus Is The Good Shepherd").

Look at the Scripture below - "He calls us by name"!!!! - How wonderful!!!

Look at the Bible verse below - God calls out each star by name. There are Bible scholars who believe that the stars are actually His angels (I agree with that view).

If there is a way to get our name restored to the correct status that God created us with, then I hope that correction will become apparent to us soon.

In the mean time, the most important thing to concentrate on is making sure that our name is written in the "Book of Life." (see Scripture below):

Remember that one day all of these secrets and lies will come to light.

Thursday, August 6, 2026

Zinnias & the Importance of Labeling Seedlings

Zinnias & the Importance of Labeling Seedlings

For the past couple years, we have been starting most of our plants from seed in our homemade cold frame (click HERE to view "Repurposed Windows Made Into A Cold Frame"). This year for some reason, we decided to put the empty seed packet underneath the seedling rows instead of using a popsicle stick marker. I'm sure that you can guess what happened.........the seed packet got soaked and the words were unreadable.

We had a packet of Zinnias from Mary's Heirloom Seeds and a packet of cantaloupe.

Click HERE to visit the Zinnia page on "Mary's Heirloom Seeds"!

Well, somehow the tray of cantaloupe got mixed up with our cucumber seedlings and we totally lost track of the Zinnias. We thought the Zinnia seedlings were the cantaloupe starters.

We reserved a special spot in the garden for the melons giving them plenty of room to spread. Now keep in mind that I had never grown Zinnias before - even after 40 years of gardening. As the seedlings started growing I noticed that they were rather upright, like maybe a unique climbing melon or something (I am laughing - haha).

They were looking like the pictures below:

Once we saw the little blossom (see picture below), then I knew that we had made a mistake.

Anyway, they are beautiful and the bees love them.

There are so many different colors - God's creativity is amazing!!

Enjoy the following pictures:

All photos were taken by me (Angie Ouellette-Tower) and the flowers were all grown in my garden.
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