3 Years of blogging | blog anniversary

The Fable Rose Blog’s third year. Writing through hardships and trusting in the LORD. New blog schedule and the plan for the next year. 

3 Years Of Blogging 

| writing through life one step at a time | 

It has now been three years since I hit “publish” and launched this blog. So much has happened over the course of these three years. Some of the highest highs and lowest lows are documented here. 

In the archives you can read about the moment I graduated high school, when I finished writing stories I’ve poured my heart into, lands I traveled through within the pages of beloved books, the day I was baptized and many other such happy days. Also in the archives you can read about my struggles with anxiety, my failing health, the loss of my grandpa, the challenges of life.  

On this such occasion, I am walking through one of the most challenging and discouraging seasons of my life. Since December 2024 (honestly this has been going on the past few years but it's gotten worse) I have been hit with health issue after health issue. I feel like I keep crashing into a wall. Each time I start to feel better something else crashes into me making me lose my balance and crash back down to the floor. Some days feel a bit better. Others I can barely get out of bed. It’s been really challenging. 

This is why I have also been off from blogging and sending emails for the past few weeks. Even though this is still hard for me, even though it feels like I’m fighting a losing battle, I want to still be here. 

With writing, I feel like God has given me a beautiful gift. A gift to process through writing. To write through life one step at a time. 

Sometimes the most vulnerable posts I have shared have led to making connections with lovely friends who are also struggling. I am not the only person struggling. Everyone struggles. Everyone has hard seasons in life. Everyone experiences pain and discouragement and suffering of some kind. We all need Jesus. Jesus is our comforter in our time of need. He knows what it means to truly suffer and go through pain. He knows it. He understands it. We can go to Him for comfort. We can go to Him knowing He knows what it is like to be human and face hardships. What a beautiful thing to know we can go to Jesus and be comforted. We can go to God and find comfort and safety in the protection of His arms. 

He will cover you with his pinions,

and under his wings you will find refuge;

his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.

—Psalm 91:4

Because you have made the LORD your dwelling place—

the Most High, who is my refuge—

no evil shall be allowed to befall you,

no plague come near your tent. 

—Psalm 91:9-10

In the Lord there is safety. In Jesus there is peace. In God we are comforted. In the Holy Spirit we find our helper. We have all that we need in Him. 

You may also be struggling and in a time of hardship. If so, I want to encourage you to lean on Jesus. Trust in Him. Find your comfort and peace in Him. I know it is not always easy. I know what it feels like to be hit more times than you can bear. I know what it feels like to feel so defeated you think you can’t go on or you just want to cry. When all else fails, God is steady and steadfast. I know this as a truth in my life. 

Being a Christian doesn’t mean that nothing bad will ever happen to you. It actually kinda means the opposite. You will face trials and hardship and tribulations. You will feel like you are failing. You will feel weak. You will hurt. In your weakness and struggles Jesus is our strength. Think of the song Jesus loves me: “they are weak but He is strong”. 

Paul says in Romans 5:1-5: Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.  Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. 

We will face hardships in our lives. That is a part of being human. But that doesn’t mean we should be hopeless. We are to rejoice in our sufferings. There is peace and joy in Christ. 

“And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” 

—Romans 8:28

All the pain and hardships you face in your life, I believe, will be used by God. Nothing is wasted with Him. For everything there is a purpose. He has a plan for you and your life. It does work out for good even if you don’t understand it right now, 

I don’t understand why I am facing all these struggles in my life right now. I know God has a plan and a purpose for it and that in the end it will be for His glory. I’m in the middle of my storm. I don’t yet see the break and clear after the storm. I’m praying for it. Praying that what I am going through will be used. 

Who knows, this may become a story in a year or two. 

I have this motto of sorts. It is simply to write through life one step at a time. God is writing a story for me and you. As the “characters” in the story, we can’t see the ending of the next sentence or chapter let alone what the end of our “book” will be. God is The Good Author. He knows. (Hint: you can read the end of the Bible to see what that ending is). We have to trust in Him. Just keep going one step at a time. You may fall down, you may get sidetracked, you may even fall down a rabbit hole, but as long as you are following God and staying close to Him you will be just fine. 

So this year going into this new year of blogging, I want to write through it. Share about what I am going through. Share encouragement in the Lord. Share about good books. Share about life and the things I am doing and learning this new year. 

My focus this year is on healing, resting and being prepared. I want to share with you what I’m doing. My posting schedule may be a bit different than past years. I really want to get better and heal. As of right now I don’t know how much I can post in this season but I’m hoping at least twice a month (ideally it would be once a week but I don’t know yet). 

The blog theme of the year is: 

Writing through life one step at a time. 

Thank you for being here and for being a part of my life! I hope you are all having a wonderful rest of your day! I’ll see you in the next one!

Love, Moriyah 

Blog Stats for 2024

Views: 25k 

Comments: 45

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I am actually really surprised my top country as far as views for 2024 was Hong Kong. Who would have thought?