Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." When my children were school age and were in the throes of writing and reading, we drove a couple of hours away so they could take part in a writing workshop, given by authors who had written children's and youth literature—and who had been fairly successful. During one of the sessions about publishing (these were the days before self-publishing), the teacher commented that sometimes it takes awhile to get books published, but to never give up hope. He then mentioned a book we all knew very well; for ten years the author sent it to publisher after publisher, until one publishing house finally decided to take a chance. If he had not persevered, we might have never had Frank Peretti's This Present Darkness. Mr. Peretti may not have known at the time that his book would be a best-selling novel, but he did believe in the words he'd written—enough to have the courage to keep trying. Never give up. Greatness might be just around the corner. I have a friend who once wrote a curriculum for a class she was teaching. She asked several friends to read it so she could get feedback, because she was considering putting it into book format, hoping to sell it to a wider audience. The content wasn't something I would have ever considered reading for pleasure or even education. But one [...]