As a child, I remember my father doing a trick where he would hold a coin in his hand, make it disappear and then magically reappear behind one of my ears.I was amazed at how this happened.
This morning watching the Royal Wedding, it was equally magical for me thinking about how Kate was transformed from a commoner to a Princess with her wedding vows. She is no different a person than who she was yesterday, but now her life will have the capacity to expand in unimaginable ways.
Sometimes I think that as chronic pain sufferers, our pain has robbed us of our original identity. It has taken away from our self image and perceived value. What we need to do is give value back to ourselves. Believe that we are worthy of the best that life has to offer and never stop believing that tomorrow can be transformational, just like today was for Princess Kate.
Keep believing that transformations, large or small, are possible. Here are some magic coins for safekeeping.
Mary Byrne Eigel 
I’ve been trying to stay away from the computer (it’s been adding to my chronic pain of late) so I’m VERY behind in my comments to folk’s blogs.
Thank you for the magical coins and wonderful thoughts.
I always keep coins minted in the year I was born (and give the appropriate one to other folks); somewhere I got the idea (probably from my mother who had a lot of folk-lore like ideas) that it was good luck.
Hope you find a whole pot full of coins minted in the year of your birth.