12 Years of Blogging

After 12 years of blogging, the statistics of this blog are not great, but the benefits that I’ve received through the blog are amazing.

For a dozen years, chronicling my life of faith has trained me both as a writer and as a Christian. I tend to process the world around me through writing, so taking the time every week or month to put my experiences, insights, and inspirations into words has helped me to improve my writing while deepening my understanding of God, myself, and life as a whole. I’m grateful to God for this. I’m also grateful for the comments, encouragements, and friendships that you, dear readers, have given to me in this journey that I share.

All of this would’ve been more than enough. Amazingly, however, I’ve also become a published author through the writing discipline and the deep diving this blog requires. My parents have given me, through their self giving love and sacrifice, the time and space for this blog and my book to happen — thank you, Mama and Daddy! Currently, I’m working on a second book, which is why you haven’t seen me here this November. My days of energetic multitasking seem to be waning quite a bit, but, thankfully, my enthusiasm and commitment remain in all of my good days, which far outnumber any bad days. I’m grateful that I’ve lived long enough to share my gratitude and blessings here with you. I’ve already received more than I thought I would decades ago. As I’ve aged, my parents have as well, noticeably so in the last several months, and I am even more in awe of them and grateful for them.

Who knows how long each of our journeys will be on this Earth? Only God knows. I pray that all of us will live our lives well, asking and striving for purity of heart and poverty of spirit, no matter how long our lives may be. Therefore, my quest for wisdom continues, the quest for beauty, the quest for truth. Recently, I read a passage in the Catechism of the Catholic Church that drew from the Book of Wisdom and speaks to me mightily of sacred wonder and the splendor of God’s love. Allow me to share it with you as I end this blog entry:

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The practice of goodness is accompanied by spontaneous spiritual joy and moral beauty. Likewise, truth carries with it the joy and splendor of spiritual beauty. Truth is beautiful in itself. Truth in words, the rational expression of the knowledge of created and uncreated reality, is necessary to man, who is endowed with intellect. But truth can also find other complementary forms of human expression, above all when it is a matter of evoking what is beyond words: the depths of the human heart, the exaltations of the soul, the mystery of God. Even before revealing himself to man in words of truth, God reveals himself to him through the universal language of creation, the work of his Word, of his wisdom: the order and harmony of the cosmos—which both the child and the scientist discover—“from the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their Creator,” “for the author of beauty created them.”[i]

[Wisdom] is a breath of the power of God, and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty; therefore nothing defiled gains entrance into her. For she is a reflection of eternal light, a spotless mirror of the working of God, and an image of his goodness. For [wisdom] is more beautiful than the sun, and excels every constellation of the stars. Compared with the light she is found to be superior, for it is succeeded by the night, but against wisdom evil does not prevail. I became enamored of her beauty. [ii]

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© 2025 Christina Chase

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[i] CCC para 2500

[ii] Wis 13:3, 5;  7:25-26, 29-30; Wis 8:2.