I Hope You Dance...

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Music and Etsy have been the inspiration for my blog this week; my first week ends with 6 followers.  Thank you!  Sales in my Etsy shop have been pretty slow and I was close to giving up, but I have hope that I'm doing the right thing.  I have hope that when you work hard you will be rewarded.  Hope is what keeps us all going in life.  Hope is what we cling to when life throws difficulties our way.  Without hope, we would be hopeless.  Webster defines hopeless as "beyond optimism and desperate."  

I believe that God sends us the little things in life so we can maintain our hope. More important than the financial rewards of Etsy, including my donation to a local charity, are the relationships I have formed along with the hope I have been given.  I have been blessed to send a gold childhood cancer ribbon to a fellow Etsyian in honor of her 3 year old niece who is fighting retinoblastoma.  In return she sent me beautiful earrings that she makes to raise money for Anya.  I shared with you about the pennies from heaven and was again blessed to receive a penny cross necklace to remember my Gpa by, and just in time for my mom to take on her mission to Haiti tomorrow.

So today, I want to thank them in the pictures I choose and also share today's inspirational song.

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 I Hope You Dance by Leann Womack:

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger
May you never take one single breath for granted
God forbid love ever leave you empty handed
I hope you still feel small when you stand by the ocean
Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens
Promise me you'll give faith a fighting chance

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Living might mean taking chances but they're worth taking
Lovin' might be a mistake but it's worth making
Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter
When you come close to selling out reconsider
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance 

Hope you still feel small when you stand by the ocean
Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens
Promise me you'll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance   
I HOPE YOU DANCE

Have a great weekend.
God Bless,
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