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A friend sent this to me today. It is very, very funny.

 Rosary Book Update:

I have decided to keep track of my progress with the Rosary book. I started working on it seriously on November 5. I hope to publish it on April 27th, 2014 in tribute to Pope John Paul II\’s canonization. I now have 22 weeks or 155 days. Another one of those \”It will take a miracle to do – but I believe in em – so why not?\”

Yesterday I was praying my rosary for this intention and I asked God could you please send me a little something to push me forward? Something that will let me know I\’m heading in the right direction?

When it comes to faith, I\’m one of those folks that wants constant reassurance.

I was supposed to have gone to work at the Villas at noon but I ended up being longer taking a friend to a doctor\’s appointment than I had planned. So I had to call up the Villas and say that I would be a bit late because of being at the doctor for my friend. They told me not to worry about the noon meal but to just come in for the evening one.

So I was actually rather glad because I wanted to work on the book. A little later after I got home I checked my email. There was an email from a Catholic book publisher that I had sent a book proposal to a long time ago. So long I had forgotten I had sent it and figured they were not interested. The email said they were interested and would like some more information. The acquisition editor who sent the email also sent me her phone number. Hmmm?

I looked at the time the email was sent and it had been only five minutes. So I figured, \”Gosh, I bet she is still at her desk!\”

I called the number thinking I was probably going to get just a main office kind of thing and have to go through the usual relay of trying to make an actual connection. But surprise – it was her direct number and she answered the phone.

I told her who I was figuring if she had just sent me an email it ought to be still on her mind. And that worked because she did make the connection. So then . . . I told her that I had put the first book on hold and was working like crazy on this new Rosary book – and was there any chance at all that they could publish it?

She told me that there usual length of time for publishing a book with an author was a year and I said, \”Yes, I know – but – and I told her some more about the book and how many people liked the first one and she said, \”Well, maybe there was a tiny chance. Not much of one, but she would discuss it with her team. She did agree with me that the rosary book would probably do very well.\”

And that is where it ended. BUT – by golly as far as I am concerned whether or not that works out – it definitely was the sign I had asked for. My little nudge that I am moving forward and God is opening doors. Doors that had been very tightly shut. And if I had not had to cancel my working with the Villas I would not have been at home when the email came in. By the time I would have gotten home – it would have been too late to call the editor.

But God set everything up to answer my little prayer. Boom. Boom. Boom.

You know what?

I bet I could write 101 amazing stories about the rosary just myself!

But I really want other stories as well. So if you think about one?  Submit a story

Have a very blessed and joy-filled day.

Patricia