We Are All Beautiful

We got all our documents notarized with only one mistake that has to be corrected. I am so glad that there wasn't anymore. The Mr and I also received our notice for fingerprints today. This is great news because we were told that we don't have to wait for our appointment. We can go in early, which will hurry things along a little. Then we will only have to wait for the acceptance letter before we can fedex stuff off! Keep praying for us please!

So, while I crochet my fingers to the bone I usually sit and watch things on Netflix or Hulu. I recently came a cross a show that I remember hearing about before it aired but never got a chance to see it. And I have to say it is amazing!! It is called Smash and is about a new musical that they are trying to get ready to be on Broadway. The musical is about Marilyn Monroe and the songs are fantastic. I was watching today and on came this song that made me cry. I had to share! It is called Secondhand white baby grand.

 http://youtu.be/dyQs-mQgyC8 (copy this link to hear it)

My mother bought it secondhand from a silent movie star
It was out of tune but still I learned to play
And with each note we both would smile forgetting who we are
And all the pain would simply fly away

Something secondhand and broken still can make a pretty sound
Even if it doesn't have a place to live
Oh, the words were left unspoken when my momma came around
But that Secondhand White Baby Grand still had something beautiful to give

Through missing keys and broken strings the music was our own
Until the day we said our last goodbyes
The baby grand was sent away, a child all alone, to pray somebody else would realize
That something secondhand and broken still can make a pretty sound
Even if it doesn't have a place to live
Oh. the words are still unspoken now that momma's not around
But that Secondhand White Baby Grand still has something beautiful to give

For many years the music had to roam

Until we found a way to find a home.

So now I wake up every day and see her standing there.

Just waiting for a partner to compose

And I wish my mother still could hear

That sound beyond compare

I'll play her song till everybody knows.

That something secondhand and broken still can make a pretty sound
Don't we all deserve a family room to live
Oh. the words can't stay unspoken until everyone has found
That Secondhand White Baby Grand that still has something beautiful to give.

I still have something beautiful to give.




Just like the lyrics to this beautiful song, we each have something beautiful to give. We are each one of us broken in some way, but we still have all kinds of gifts to share with the world. We all deserve a home and  a family that loves us and can see the good in us. I am so grateful to be able to give a loving family and home to someone, that for all kinds of reasons will probably feel secondhand and broken.  But no matter how broken she will feel, to us, she will always have something beautiful to give.