Iwas thrilled when, around Easter this year, I received an email from a leading American publishing house.
"We've been reading your column in The Japan Times and would be very open to your submitting a story for an anthology of religious pieces we are publishing in 2012."
I jumped at the chance. A blessing out of the blue, it seemed. So, I toiled away for some weeks and sent them my resulting story about Jesus showing up one day on a street corner in Corpus Christi, Texas.