Never give up and we will succeed

I received an email from my son Austin who is spending the year in Costa Rica to learn Spanish as he participates in mission work. His words blurred on my computer screen as tears formed in my eyes. Wow, I miss him. I turned in my chair and bent my head to collect my thoughts and also to pray for him. Opening my eyes again, the pennies I had placed in my loafers this morning caught my attention (so I photographed what I saw and posted it here).

I'd put the two cents there to remind me to continue to work on my as-of-yet-unpublished novel about a 1973 penny's journeys in circulation. I began writing the novel in August of 2007, although I had dreamed about it for a dozen years prior. It has been a long process with writing, researching, proofing, revising, signing with an agent, submitting the manuscript, being rejected, revising again, submitting more, writing more, revising more, etc., etc.

Austin has been watching this process and, today, he noted how it compares to his dream of being fluent in Spanish. He wrote in his email: "It relates to your book progress. Had you known all the things that went into it in the beginning you would have definitely been overwhelmed. But through it all, the desire remains the same...to accomplish. All things take time and today, we continue on."

Nunca te rindas y lo conseguiremos.