Not every day is going to be a good one, and two nights ago wasn’t even a very bad night, but after checking out the facebook profiles of friends who seemed to be celebrating the very things I want so badly, I felt like the only thing that would make things right was listening to some Tracy Chapman while curled up under my thick comforter (and really, comforter is just the perfect name for it). I’ve often said that if God could just tell me that my dreams of having a husband (and dare I add, children?) would definitely come true sometime before I die, I’d be able to better enjoy the here and now. Something tells me that this is where faith comes in, faith and HOPE.

So isn’t it just fitting that two nights ago when I really needed it, I had already been drawn as one of two winners of Stacy Anne de la Rosa’s (you have to write her whole name out because it looks and sounds so pretty together) giveaway!

I enter giveaways every now and then, but don’t often win (the lovely Brenda did choose me as the winner of the gorgeous banner that graces this page). I had a choice of either the YES WE CAN pendant or the HOPE pendant, and I don’t think it takes a genius to figure out which one I selected:

(image from Stacy’s etsy shop)

In Stacy’s entry announcing the winners, she explains how she picked Linni and I:

So, before randomly choosing two names, I lit a candle, threw a little prayer out to the universe that these necklaces would find their way to two people who truly needed them in this moment, closed my eyes and took a deep breath.

I love that. Thank you, Stacy.

(isn’t it funny that I was talking about not being a winner earlier in the week?)

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