Did You Miss Me?
If you’ve been worried about me because of my absence here, please accept my apology. There was nothing to worry about. July just flew past me.
If you haven’t been worried about me because you didn’t even notice my absence … well, then, ignore these first two paragraphs.
There is good news: I’ve been working on my book. I’ve even started the cutting and slashing phase, though I’m not very good at that, always keeping the bits that I’ve cut and slashed in a separate document. But it’s progress, and that’s what’s important.
There’s more good news: 600 copies of my first book were sold over the last six months! That, I think, is the biggest amount since It’s Good to Be Here was first published at the end of 2019. I couldn’t figure out why the numbers jumped so much. Then my mother said, “The interview.” Oh, yeah. The interview that had been recorded last year by an EWTN TV crew aired this spring. Maybe people noticed!
Being a member of a family, there’s always good news and not so good news, but we keep loving, forgiving, praying, and hoping every day as we live through the bigger things and littler things. For this brief post, I thought I would leave you with lines from Scripture that were in my head recently (no, I didn’t have all the lines in my head, but I’m sharing them with you) from John 14:22-26:
Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”
Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me.
All this I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.
© 2025 Christina Chase
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Although crippled by disease, I'm fully alive in love. I write about the terrible beauty and sacred wonder of life, while living with physical disability and severe dependency. A revert to the Catholic faith through atheism, I'm not afraid to ask life's big questions. I explore what it means to be fully human through my weekly blog and have written a book: It's Good to Be Here, published by Sophia Institute Press.
Christina Chase 
Well, yes, I do miss you, but I can be a less than regular correspondent myself! A ripple of apologies ripples round the planet; if only people did not believe they are right and the Other is wrong when both are imperfect. Â I cannot use the blog as an excuse, since that is – as you once said – a pot pourri rather than a personal letter. And it is often written in advance as a thought – my own or someone else’s – comes to mind. It may sit there for months for a saint or feast or anniversary. It may get moved to allow a theme to develop around it, or be sent to join a post that is dying for company. Â Still, I think Janet is about to call her husband to dine, so I’ll find that picture I wanted to share. Here are Isaac, his mother Katharine, Auntie Naomi, Arthur, Harry’s son; Harry, Eleanor and Stanley. Picture by Arthur’s mother, Rebecca; the parents were that day celebrating their wedding anniversary elsewhere, this was sent as encouragement for the next few years! Â And I must go down for my bacon and mushroom risotto which will be good. Â God bless, Â Maurice. Â Â
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