The Real Treasure | Blog + Song

Natalia Chase
Jul 27
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Updated: Aug 4

The Real Treasure: Why This Song Was Written

For 13 months, I lived in the tension of the unknown—persistent heart arrhythmia and liver tremors at night left me weary and searching. Test after test—heart monitors, EKGs, echocardiograms, bloodwork—returned normal. Still, the symptoms lingered.

Friends and family prayed. I prayed. We waited for clarity. But as the months passed, I began to sense that this wasn’t just about my physical health. In the waiting for an answer, it felt like God was inviting me to look deeper.

At first, I focused on resolution—on getting well, on fixing what was broken. But slowly, I began to realize that joy doesn’t come from outcomes. Outcomes shift. But when our hearts are rooted in God’s presence, we aren’t tossed around by what does or doesn’t happen. The real transformation happens when we no longer need the answers to trust the One walking with us.

One parable in the Bible came alive for me during this time—the story of the two sons in Luke 15. The younger one leaves his father's house, squanders the inheritance he had been given, and returns expecting to be punished. Instead, he’s embraced. The older son stays, serves, and grows bitter when he sees grace lavished on his brother. He protests, and the father says, "My son...you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.”

The older son had the real treasure the whole time—the presence of the father. But he missed it, because some part of him saw their relationship as transactional. If I serve, then I deserve. But the father’s love was never about earning. It was always about being with him.

That realization unraveled something in me. How often had I chased results—healing (and understandably so), success, clarity—thinking they were the prize? But what if the prize is simply getting to walk with God, every day?

As my perspective shifted, my prayers did too. I began to say, “Lord, please do heal me but no matter what, make being with You enough.” My heart began gradually moving from striving toward a quiet trust: The reward is doing life with with You.

Then, in His kindness, God gave me an answer. Not through a miracle, but through wisdom. A small dietary change resolved most of my symptoms. It reminded me that God sees the whole picture, but He also cares about the details. He heals through miracles sometimes—and through wisdom and patience other times. And other times, we have to wait to see His healing power on the other side of glory. No matter what, He’s with us.

A Song in the Stillness

Music had long felt like a place of disappointment for me—so many attempts, so many unmet expectations. I hadn’t published a song I'd written in years. But then, after a concussion in February 2025 from an ice skating fall—on top of the heart and liver challenges I was already facing—I was forced to slow down. Way down. In that quiet space, I sensed God nudging me: Write a song.

I didn’t know what to say. But as I sat in the stillness, the lyrics came quickly—like they’d been waiting for my mind to quiet down. The next day, I was sitting at the piano, working on a melody—as much as my aching brain would allow—when my brother, Colin Boyd, called at a different time than usual. I told him what I was working on. Ninety minutes later, we had nearly finished the song.

That song, The Real Treasure, became a memory stone for this season—a marker of all I’d walked through, and of the lesson I most needed to learn: The real treasure isn’t healing. It isn’t answers. It's Him.

A New Way to See

We often see the mountaintop as the goal. But what if the real reward isn’t reaching the summit—it’s the journey with God along the way?

We long for victories. For change. For doors to open. And God does move in powerful ways. But even those gifts are not the greatest treasure. He is.

These lyrics say it best:

You slay giants, but a giant slain is not the highest prize.You move mountains, but a mountain moved is not the real reward. You do miracles, but a miracle is not what I seek...

It’s You, it’s You—the real treasure is You. That I get You every day, through every triumph and pain. It’s You, it’s You—this journey, I do it with You.The real treasure is You.

My hope is that this song speaks to anyone who feels stuck waiting, hoping, or striving. May we come to see that the greatest gift isn’t something from God—it’s God Himself. When we grasp that, even the waiting becomes holy.

And truly—what could be better?

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