by Nadia Ramoutar MMM Communications Coordinator                   Ireland                    20.11.2025

It is winter here in Ireland now. But the climate crisis has made for confusingly warm temperatures until this week. The result is that the bulbs I planted in the garden for Spring are starting to shoot. Today, it is supposed to hit freezing. I am not sure what my poor baby plants will do. So I will cover then tonight in hopes of protecting them.

Life goes this way.

We think one thing will happen and then it doesn’t or it happens slower or faster than we expected. Getting life “just right” is so rare. I would have to say that I think the hope of expectation that life should be a certain way causes so many of us disappointment, grief or even anxiety. We live in an angst driven world and I can’t help but feel that this is the downside to the human capacity to think.

In overthinking we often lose our connection to a more organic way of letting what is best emerge. For the past few years now, we have been hosting a Christmas Craft Fair at the end of November at the Convent in Drogheda. This is something we brought back after realising that the “Sales of Work” were a big hit back in the early MMM days and Mother Mary Martin, our founder was encouraging of interactions with the community – she also fully understood that fundraising was the only way to grow her congregation.

In past years, the local children’s choir have come to our Christmas Fair and perform. This summer our MMM Sisters formed a choir to perform and record a song dedicated to our found Mother Mary Martin. (You can watch this on our YouTube channel). The children’s choir leader had the idea to invite our MMM Sisters to sing with the children. He selected “Lean on Me” as a song which seems ideal.

Our MMM Sisters work so hard all over the world to make life better for children. It will so lovely to see them singing with the local children here. It is so wonderful to see our choir performing with the children live. How exciting for the children who will always have such a lovely memory? Also, for the families to be there to see it too. There’s just so much beauty in seeing our Craft Fair grow to be a place where such a moment will take place.

When we began the Craft Fair years ago we never dreamed it would grow in such a beautiful way. It has slowly progressed and become a day of great joy. Perhaps we all need to keep in mind that if we do something small with great love that is the best way for anything to grow.