title: Unwrapping Martha's Joy: Creating a Mary Christmas in Your Heart and Home
author:  Brenda Poinsett 
description: Brenda Poinsett works with women who want a new lease on life and with adults who want to learn and grow spiritually. At retreats, conferences, and special events, Brenda offers encouragement and hope along with valuable information. She works at perfecting her communication skills through memberships in the National Speakers Association, Toastmasters International, and Advanced Writers and Speakers Association. Along the way she came to see writing as another important avenue for sharing eternal truths. Shes the author of more than 20 books, including He Said What?!, Not My Will, The Friendship Factor, Wonder Women of the Bible, When Saints Sing the Blues, and Holiday Living. Brenda and her husband, Bob, have three grown sons, a daughter-in-law, and three grandchildren.
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  The Bride's Christmas Adventure
  
  
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  Chapter One  
  
  
  
  
  
  Martha sat on the hard bench with the other women and wiped her forehead with
  the back of her hand. She had been sewing in the hot and claustrophobic
  sweatshop for over fifteen hours and she couldn’t see the end in sight today.
  She had so much more to do or she and her father wouldn’t be eating anything
  other than stale bread and gravy for the next week.  
  
  
  She thought back to five years ago when she was in her late teenage years,
  about to start work as a seamstress. Martha recalled how she had a smile on
  her face and was excited to start work, but things were different then. Her
  father worked at the Dobler Brewery in Albany so at least they had more money
  and were able to buy small luxuries once a month, like beef to go in the stew,
  and wood for the fire to keep them warm.  
  
  
  Now, everything seemed a struggle. Martha had grown into a young woman 