Author of Mary, Teach Me To Be Your Daughter releases new title, Through Storms and Still Waters, to help women deepen their connection to Christ.
Ascension has released Through Storms and Still Waters: Finding Union With Christ in Suffering, a book for women looking to deepen their relationship with Christ through joys and trials alike.
Written by Megan Madden, wife, mother, and author of Mary, Teach Me To Be Your Daughter, Megan chronicles her own experiences of suffering and joys. Megan encourages readers to draw closer to Jesus and be united with him as they go through the storms and still waters, the highs and lows, of life.
With personal stories, poetic reflections, Scriptural imagery, and profound takeaways for the reader, Megan shares her story as one friend to another–woman to woman, bride of Christ to bride of Christ.
Megan Madden comments on what she hopes readers receive from her book, “I hope this book reads as if we’re sitting together over a cup of tea and sailing into the depths of the spiritual life. Through deserts, storms, stillness, darkness, and piercing light we will accompany the Lord with a character I call ‘The Bridal Woman’ through meditations and stories inspired by my own journey.”
Through Storms and Still Waters is the perfect companion to Megan’s other Ascension title, Mary, Teach Me To Be Your Daughter.
Through Storms and Still Waters is available at www.AscensionPress.com.
Praise for Through Storms and Still Waters
“In her second book, Megan Madden carries the reader through the prayerful recesses of her heart toward Christ the Bridegroom. Through Storms and Still Waters is a journey of experience and mystical imagery that encourage women to prepare their oil lamps as the watchful Bridal Woman. Containing an ocean of wisdom, this book is destined to be a treasured favorite reread for years to come.”
–Emily Malloy
Author of Theology of Home IV: Arranging the Seasons
“Megan Madden has let God’s story in her soul pour out onto the printed page for the good of others, especially for other women in every vocation. Her first book, Mary, Teach Me to Be Your Daughter, invites women readers to meet Mary as a true mother and model of femininity. Now in Through Storms and Still Waters, she opens up about her own journey of drawing ever closer to Christ the Bridegroom from within her vocation of wife and mother. Madden’s clear and honest writing let us witness how grace works in the concrete reality of daily life. She shares with us the joys, crosses, isolation, and deep fulfillment of motherhood lived in the light of God. Each chapter ends with another facet of the wisdom of “the Bridal Woman” as the most profound way of the soul’s response to Christ. Her mature spirituality and deep theological grounding make this book a real treasure for Catholic women in all states of life.”
–Sr. Maria Theotokos Adams
A missionary sister of the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará (Servidoras), part of the Religious Family of the Incarnate Word (IVE)
“‘Heart speaks to heart.’ This line from the works of St. Francis de Sales which was so dear to St. John Henry Newman describes the way in which this book has been written. The author writes from the depths of her rich personal experience of journeying with Jesus and I am certain that what she writes will resonate deeply in the hearts of those who read it. The book provides excellent insights into the spiritual life in a way that is both creative and accessible to all. To be shared with mothers, daughters, wives, sisters, friends, who seek to remain on the straight and narrow path to heaven amidst the tribulations of life and the consolations of the Lord.”
–Fr. Sean Davidson
Pastor of the parish of St Joseph’s in Stockport, the Eucharistic Shrine for the Diocese of Shrewsbury
“If you’re hoping for stillness in the storm, if you’re longing to access your deeper self, Megan Madden brings a glowing lamplight to these desires of the heart in her book Through Storms and Still Waters. The book unfolds as a surprise and delight to the reader, weaving personal stories and a stunning guided narration. It’s a must-read, many times over.”
–Nell O’Leary
Catholic strategist, writer, and speaker living in Saint Paul, Minnesota with her husband and five children
“My dear sisters, the Lord has granted us a great gift in Megan Madden as a guide and author. As she encourages us with her words and her anecdotes and her own personal testimony, may we trust the Lord. May we trust his love for us. May we trust the Lord in the deserts, believing that it is in the ordinary and the day-to-day and the deserts that he comes and espouses himself to each of us.
May the Blessed Mother encourage all of us and strengthen us by her prayers. Amen.”
–Fr. Mark-Mary Ames, CFR
Host of The Rosary in a Year podcast
About the Author
Megan Madden is a homeschooling mother with a passion for writing and speaking on authentic femininity and virtuous womanhood. In 2017, she began graduate studies in marriage and family at the International Theological Institute in Austria. After moving to Kraków, Poland to work with university students, Megan more personally continued her research on the complementarity of man and woman, particularly on the question of what it means to be a woman. She delved into the study of renowned Catholic writers on women such as St. Edith Stein, Gertrude von le Fort, Alice von Hildebrand, St. John Paul II, and St. Teresa of Avila.
The results were the development of Megan’s online ministry A Mother’s Lace, as well as speaking opportunities and her book with Ascension: Mary, Teach Me to Be Your Daughter.
Megan lives outside of Oxford, England with her husband, who is a lecturer in theology, and their five children.
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