I connected with the Lupus Foundation, began offering workshops for them on the healing potential of art. Something happened within me. I found my heart open to accepting the diagnosis and to being better able to live with the pain. My hands opened to light and love pouring through me, radiating healing not only to myself but to others I touched (image 7). Gazing on the image I drew of an open egg shell in which I sat amidst growing tulips and other flowers, I found that a new sense of being one with the universe had surfaced in me (image 8). I had experienced a new awakening (image 9).