Posts by Maggie Martin
In His Timing
It will all happen in His perfect timing. Bleh. I cannot tell you how many times I have heard that throughout our infertility journey. I know that it is well intentioned, and I even say it myself sometimes when I have nothing else to say. But the wounded, distrustful part of my heart still grimaces…
Read MoreWhy Judah and Not Joseph?
Early on in teaching our Faith Formation class this year, my husband and I realized how little our kids knew of our history as God’s people. Doing our best to work with the Holy Spirit in picking out the most imperative stories, we do a candle-lit reading from the Bible after we get through some…
Read MoreChrist the King Pep Talk
There is nothing that lights up the embers of my soul quite like our Lord’s title, Christ the King. The crisp, cutting alliteration brings my imagination to the days of old when men would suit up in mesh metal mail and unsheathe their silver swords to battle for love of their monarch. When throngs of…
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