Maranatha was one of the first songs I wrote specifically for Holy Trinity.  We were just approaching the advent season and I was looking for a way to really drive home the reason for those four Sundays of advent.  I sat down to write a chant.  I was looking for something modern, yet traditional sounding.  Maranatha is what came out.  It was written over the space of about one hour.  Maranatha means, "Come quickly, Lord" or "The Lord has come."  For advent I used the first translation.  Holy Trinity sang this song at the beginning of every service throughout advent.

This song was not ever meant to be on Forward Motion.  I wrote it after all the other tracks had already been recorded.  I was in the middle of mixing the rest of the CD.  I decided to record it for the benefit of the other member of the church band so they could learn it more easily.  My little demo recording ended up sounding pretty good, so I decided to make it my very sneaky hidden bonus track on the CD.  This is the only track on the CD that only has me on it.