The Dawn of a New Dream

Can the magnetism of a loving girl, twelve years younger, make a sea change in the life of a thirty-five-year-old bachelor?
Jonathan Reeves, A CPA by profession, has successfully climbed the social ladder of 1970s Chicago, owning a prestigious accounting firm and leading a lonely and introspective life. He has fulfilled every obligation to his family, yet he feels like a street dog at the end of a long race-breathless, hollow, and wondering if the madness of the rat race was ever worth it.

Everything changes on an overnight train to Chicago. Jonathan meets Samuel, an elderly man traveling with a small, frail grandchild. What starts as a simple act of help turns into a friendship that Jonathan never saw coming. Through long talks on park benches and over thermoses of coffee, Samuel begins to share the secrets of a life lived with love-and the deep tragedies that taught him those lessons.

Then Jonathan meets Grace, Samuel's second daughter. She is unlike any woman he has ever known: guileless, loving, caring, tender, and devoted to her father. She attracts him like a magnet and his rigid "bachelor's logic" begins to fail him. Now, he faces a choice: Will he retreat back to the safety of his quiet office? Or will he take a chance on a loving and meaningful family life with Grace?

The Dawn of a New Dream is a short-read novella of Christian literary fiction, written with warmth and restraint. It explores how God's purposes sometimes unfold quietly, unobtrusively, and unexpectedly.

C.V. Rajan is a retired Design Engineer, now an avid spiritual seeker, living with his wife in Ashram at Amritapuri, Kerala, spending his retired life in quest of spirituality under the holy feet of Amma, Satguru Mata Amritanandamayi.

He is an avid reader and a writer. Writing as a hobby started in him at the age of 20 and he became a regular short story writer in popular Tamil magazines during the seventies and eighties. He writes Tamil fictional stories with a pen-name Sandeepika.

As his interest turned to spirituality in his late thirties, he became an avid reader of Hindu spiritual scriptures and also the lives and teachings of great Mahatmas like Kanchi Maha Swamigal, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Bhagwan Ramana Maharshi, Swami Sivananda Saraswathi, Papa Ramadas and his Sadguru Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma).

In his early fifties, his Tamil articles started appearing in Sri Ramakrishna Vijayam magazine.

He has been writing in various websites on a variety of subjects during the past 18 years.

Other than his mother tongue (Tamil) and English, he knows to speak, read and write Malayalam as well. Apart from original writing, C.V. Rajan also does considerable translation works across English - Tamil - Malayalam.

He contributed in translation works at Ramakrishna Math (English-Tamil) and currently does it at Mata Amritanandamayi Math (Tamil-Malayalam-English). He is also currently engaged in translating some very popular Indian English Authors' books into Tamil in his spare time.

C.V. Rajan maintains his own website hinduismwayoflife.com where he is sharing all his writings on Hinduism under a single umbrella.This site is aimed to be comprehensive source of basic info on Hinduism with all its facets to common seekers.

C.V. Rajan also writes Answers regularly in Quora (English) as well as in Quora (Tamil) on readers's queries related to Hinduism, Life and Living, life experiences, etc. More than thousands of his answers are there in both the languages in Quora.