Under the Tuscan Sun,

Sir Anthony Hopkins at Tuscan Sun Festival 2009 in Cortona, Italy. Français : Portrait d'Anthony Hopkins réalisé durant un festival en août 2009 à Cortone, en Italie. Italiano: Sir Anthony Hopkins al Tuscan Sun Festival 2009 di Cortona. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

"Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game. It's such a surprise."

Under the Tuscan Sun, by Frances Mayes

It is indeed, but first you have to let down your defences:

ACIM, Lesson 135:

Your present trust in Him is the defense that promises a future undisturbed, without a trace of sorrow, and with joy that constantly increases, as this life becomes a holy instant, set in time, but heeding only immortality. Let no defenses but your present trust direct the future, and this life becomes a meaningful encounter with the truth that only your defenses would conceal.

Without defenses, you become a light which Heaven gratefully acknowledges to be its own. And it will lead you on in ways appointed for your happiness according to the ancient plan, begun when time was born. Your followers will join their light with yours, and it will be increased until the world is lighted up with joy. And gladly will our brothers lay aside their cumbersome defenses, which availed them nothing and could only terrify.