One Year of Blogging and Life

That’s right—I put up my first post on my first blog exactly one year ago today!

It started out as a school blog for me, created by my mom. But, to use a comedian’s bit, “Sssomething CHANGED!” I used it as a personal blog, and started doing Mid-Week Music. Oh, I did all kinds of things. And it was a lot of fun.

But about seven months in (around February), my mom reminded me that this was a meant to be a school blog. She thought that maybe I should have a new blog for my writing and Mid-Week Music and personal stuff. She was right, of course. So I started getting ready to make the change.

It was then that she came up with the title: “Time Traveller’s Daughter”. My dad came up with the idea to write a story for my first post, and so I ended up doing it. I’ve been blogging here, on Time Traveller’s Daughter, ever since—at this point, that would be five months.

In all this year, I’ve done 59 posts altogether, including 37 Mid-Week Music posts. Wow. I’ve had 1,536 people view my blogs, and 28 comments. It’s hard to believe that I’ve been blogging for a year. And a lot has changed since that first post.

  

For one thing, I have a baby brother, several months old now. It’s been a lot of work, as it always is with a new baby, especially when you’ve already got a lot of brothers and sisters running around the house. But it’s also been a lot of fun, and a lot of joy. It’s strange to think that he hasn’t always been here.

We lost a few old friends at church, one rather recently. Or at least, we lost them as well as we can truly lose anybody who belongs to Christ. And that’s not very well at all. They’re probably just talking to some great heroes in history or old friends, asking as many questions as they can think of. They’re having the best time they could ever have, until the New Heavens and the New Earth finally come to be.

Here on the, er, blogosphere, I made a new friend—around October, I believe, I met Clara Murphy for the first time. She commented on this blog regularly. And she’s got one of her own, for “fandom” stuff. It’s actually pretty interesting (especially the theories). Go take a look for yourself!

In my writing, I started and completed a novella, and entered it in a contest. Even though I didn’t win, I got some feedback from the judges, which was very helpful. I started rewriting my first real novel, the first book in the series Hanesion House. And it’s going pretty well. Not to mention writing this whole Time Traveller’s Daughter story.

I’ve been given a leather drawing notebook, and have drawn or written on 56 of the pages. Hopefully, you’ll be seeing some of that work soon enough. I learned the Lord’s Prayer in Anglo-Saxon recently. I discovered some new musicians to listen to (though, in most of the cases, it was either my brother or my dad), and most of them have gotten a Mid-Week Music to one of their songs.

I discovered some new stories I love, on both the big and small screen. The Man Who Invented Christmas, for one, which is absolutely amazing. And for another, Gravity Falls, which is quite an odd show—with its own problems, to be sure—but I think it’s pretty good, especially the further along you get.

That goes for books as well. Back at my birthday, I read the wonderful prequel to the 100 Cupboards series, The Door Before. Our family finished The Ransom Trilogy, by C.S. Lewis, and are in the process of reading The Great Divorce by the same. I’ve nearly finished reading The Lunar Chronicles as well, which are very interesting books, to say the least.

So you see, a lot has happened in one year. I like to think that in that time, I grew, rather than just getting older.

But we can’t talk about growth and time and change without mentioning the Lord of all those things—the Triune God of the Bible. He is the Lord of Time, and it is He that makes us grow. He will never change, and yet He orchestrates every small change in our lives.

You see, He’s the One that brought me thus far. He wrote my character, and is telling my Story constantly. He’s the reason why I’m in the Story at all. The same is true for all of us. And I can’t wait to see what He does next in it.

But some things have not changed. Allow me to reaffirm what I wrote, a year ago today:

     “But now, a word of--shall we say--caution. This place has a very specific air about it. It is a fortress and a stronghold, however small, for the Last Crusade, and the Last Crusade consists of "all who hold true faith within the majesty of truth; the impartiality of reason; the objectivity of reality; the authority of virtue; the verity of beauty; the dignity of man; the equality of the law; the love of patriots; and we hold faith with Christ."

     “In short, if you are a Leftist, an atheist, a feminist, or someone who makes a hobby of being triggered--and unless you would be glad to listen to a different point of view, and use your own logic and point of view to contest what you still find to disagree with--then you may as well leave now.

     “Silly me! I haven't introduced myself! I am a Christian, Southern, homeschooled girl, who is growing to become a Lady. One who believes in magic, and who loves the old things. One who lives for the furthering of Christendom, and who is not afraid to offend. And my name is Grace.

     “Will you stay awhile? If so, elen sila 'lummen omentielvo, and howdy-do, to you!”