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This past Friday, I had an article published as part of my correspondent work. It was on the book "Eat Pray Love" and dealt with a local woman, Melissa, who went to Italy because of the book and met a man there, who she dated. It was a romantic story and probably my favorite one to write to date. (If you'd like to read it, here you go.)

Yesterday, I received an e-mail from my editor that she received from someone else. The woman requested it be forwarded to me. Here it is:



Sara,
Do you believe that God works through others to send us a message when we need it the most? Well, I do ..

It happened to me this morning reading your article “Best Selling Book Inspires a Real Life Love Story”.

Tomorrow my daughter leaves for college…I’ve been closet crying :) off and on for weeks. I actually had to take vacation days off this week to get myself prepared not to lose it tomorrow…. This morning I was at my lowest point until I read your article and knew everything would be okay.. I’ll give you the short version of the story… (Please excuse my writing ..)

19 years ago when my daughter was 8 months old she was in critical condition at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia because her liver failed due to the chemo she was receiving for a tumor they removed under her right arm. They didn’t give us much hope that she would survive.. on the seventh day after eleven in the morning something happened.. She started laughing and moving around...The liver specialist couldn’t believe it..her liver was back to normal..I remember him saying that no medical book can explain what just happened.. By Thursday of that week we were home…and in the mail was a big folder with all home made get well cards from my friend’s daughter's CCD class. Also with the beautiful cards was a note from the CCD teacher Melissa that on the same day my daughter recovered at 11:15 all the children would pray for her recovery….So, there it was..a Miracle… I don’t know if this is the same Melissa as in your article… but seeing her name reminded me that God saved my daughter for a reason…it’s time for me to let her go and find out why….
For her graduation I put together a picture of all those beautiful cards and the letter as a gift to remind her that she is a miracle. I just needed a reminder myself… Thank You!!.


Guess what, blogging world? I checked it out and yes, that Melissa IS the same Melissa that was in my article.

When I first talked to Melissa I was merely checking up at local libraries about the book. It was by chance that I found her and her incredible story. Now I see that maybe it was a chance meeting with a higher purpose.


I am 1,000% sure that I'm in the correct job (even if it's not officially a job, yet). Nothing has made me feel so good as this e-mail. I've always wanted to make a change with my writing.

Well, there it is.