Awakening and Opening

"My heart is afraid it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.
"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity."
--Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

This past week I received some totally unexpected, very good news. A couple of folks at Courage Center are planning to publish a book with the central theme of "disability and the soul". It is to be a compilation of pieces written by disabled people. They apparently came up with this idea after seeing some of my blog entries. I will be a contributor, although I don't yet know what this will entail. Perhaps I'll be asked to write on a certain theme.

The book is in the early planning stages yet. If it goes through to publication, I will have the great pleasure of seeing my work not only in the virtual world, but in print and being commercially sold.

In case folks are wondering if I will receive any monetary gains from this, the answer is no. I'll be doing this as volunteer work, with profits from the book going to Courage Center. I am just happy to be able to contribute.