AuthorChristina Chase

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.

An overly sharpened pencil on a blank notebook page of paper

Posted October 10, 2024 biographical

Sick of Stalling

Remember how I told you that I was writing another book? Well … that hasn’t been going very well. When I had a gravely serious chest cold this summer and … Continue Reading Sick of Stalling

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Posted October 3, 20244 Comments life and death

Waiting

While I was struggling for air for five weeks, frightfully congested with a severe chest cold, my breathing completely stopped multiple times a day, I remembered certain bits and pieces … Continue Reading Waiting

Posted September 26, 20243 Comments life and death

Exile and Habakkuk

In the continuing saga of my gravely serious chest cold and its five-week reign of mucus terror, I’m sharing with you a biblical prayer that deeply spoke to me during … Continue Reading Exile and Habakkuk

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Posted September 19, 20245 Comments life and death

Getting Better

Suffering is said to bring us closer to God. When my life was on the line, however, in the first two weeks of severe chest congestion with mucous plugs that … Continue Reading Getting Better

Posted September 12, 20242 Comments biographical

Listen to the Patient

“I’m drowning! I’m drowning!” In the middle of the night, I cried out bewildered and terrified. At the end of my first week of a severe respiratory illness and just … Continue Reading Listen to the Patient

Posted September 5, 202411 Comments biographical

Be Strong and of Good Courage

Over the span of five weeks, I lost count of how many times my parents saved my life. I was as good as dead multiple times every day. Struggling for … Continue Reading Be Strong and of Good Courage

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Posted July 18, 2024 in the world

Unplanned Beauty

When it comes to planned beauty and unplanned beauty, unplanned beauty is always the most beautiful. My parents neglected to clear the grass that grows behind their fence this year. … Continue Reading Unplanned Beauty

Posted July 4, 20244 Comments doctrine

The Revolution Within

Who is the head of my life? What is guiding me each day, establishing rules for how I live? Is it self-indulgent pleasure, vanity, or apathy? Is it fear? I … Continue Reading The Revolution Within

Posted June 21, 2024 in the world

The Heart of Christ

Close-up of the hand of a disabled woman with a Sacred Heart of Jesus ring on her finger

Posted June 7, 20246 Comments doctrine

One Holy Thing

Anybody can do what is good. An atheist can do good things. But what about doing what is holy? Being Chosen in the Bible Reading the Old Testament can be … Continue Reading One Holy Thing

Posted May 19, 2024 life and death

With Mary at Pentecost

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Posted May 2, 20241 Comment in the world

Evangelizing and King Saul

I’m really not very good at evangelizing. Don’t picture evangelists here, especially not televangelists. Instead, picture Jesus as He ascended telling His disciples to be His witnesses to the ends … Continue Reading Evangelizing and King Saul

Posted April 26, 20242 Comments doctrine

Seeing Christ

Have you heard it said that we should see Christ in others? Good idea. But I do have one problem… Before we get to that problem, let me just say … Continue Reading Seeing Christ

Posted April 11, 20244 Comments biographical

Stream of Thought

Over the span of five days, here in New Hampshire, we had wind, rain, sleet, daffodils blooming, heavy snow with thunder and lightning, faint tremors from a New Jersey earthquake, … Continue Reading Stream of Thought

Posted March 28, 20241 Comment the heart

The Reason I’m Here

Why am I blogging about God? Click on the Lenten post that sums it up without summing it up: Heart. May you have a blessed and beautiful Triduum, and a … Continue Reading The Reason I’m Here

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Posted March 21, 202410 Comments holy days

“Not My Will”

[This post is based upon a Lenten post from 2020.] How many times have I begged for my life of progressive disease and severe disability to be different? When I … Continue Reading “Not My Will”