Hi, I'm Maggie. I'm a stay at home mom in Seattle, trying to keep her shit together like everyone else.
I started mightymaggie.com, your average navel-gazing mommyblog, in 2004 and wrote posts on a near-daily basis until... oh gosh. Like four years ago? Five? The advent of Twitter and Instagram really took the wind out of long form blogging and now all my blogging friends, aka The Ladies' Internet, have set up Facebook groups to stay connected. I think we used to hate Facebook.
If you know me in real life or through ye olde days of blogging, you may know that even though I awkwardly make fun of it, my faith in God is the thing I think is most important about me. It's my favorite topic, my best subject. I even used to have a blog spin off, called Where The Catholic Sun Doth Shine, where I wrote about being a bad Catholic and my adventures therein.
These days I'm an even worse Catholic. Just FYI.
Today is March 23, 2020. We're on Week Two of I Guess We're Homeschooling Now, Phillip is holed up in our brand new office/bedroom, and it's a strange time. I'm wanting to write about God again, hopefully in a new way. There's that longing for connection that has us all reactivating our Facebook accounts and talking on the phone, even though we are the sorts of people who spend hours looking for the contact email address so that we don't have to talk to anyone on the phone. Things are weird, uncomfortable, confusing, and incredibly uncertain. It's a great time to keep an eye out for God.
What I'm hoping to share here is what I see God doing as well as ways for everyone to connect just a bit more with their God, Creator, the Divine, Love, Father, Higher Authority, Goddess, whatever you call him. I want to share videos, pictures, meditations, prayer exercises, personal stories, anything that helps us turn away from fear and anxiety and focuses our view on him, aligns us with his purposes, keeps us centered in Love.
We don't have to think the same or believe the same or worship the same. I don't care very much about our differences, honestly. Do you believe in something greater than yourself? Welcome.