The Name of Your Blog

A Chelsea Morning is asking us : So what inspired your blog name? We'd all love to know. Just run home and do a "why I chose my blog name" post and come back here and link it. The curiosity has been killing me!

I started my blog only a couple months ago, after a couple years of blog surfing. Once we got a new computer and new internet service, I was really looking forward to getting in on this blog thing. So my husband and I brainstormed a long list of names for our blog. We took into consideration the following things about ourselves we wanted to convey through our name.

We are young at heart.

We think of ourselves as children of God. Jesus is our Rock, a solid foundation.

Our last name is Martin. So we added a tini for the wordplay.

Add to that the many Bible verses that speak about us being children of God, and the importance of living on the rock, and not on shakeable sand...

1 John 3:1-3 (The Message)
"What marvelous love the Father has extended to us! Just look at it— we're called children of God! That's who we really are. But that's also why the world doesn't recognize us or take us seriously, because it has no idea who he is or what he's up to.
But friends, that's exactly who we are: children of God. And that's only the beginning. Who knows how we'll end up! What we know is that when Christ is openly revealed, we'll see him— and in seeing him, become like him. All of us who look forward to his Coming stay ready, with the glistening purity of Jesus' life as a model for our own."

And therefore, we adopted our blog name Martinis on the Rock. And the tag line explains our meaning exactly as we mean it, and nothing else. Some anonymous bloggers tried to confuse us with evil loving people. But little did they realize they were attacking a family with a childlike innocence and a childlike faith as God would have us be.