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Maia decided one very cold afternoon that she wanted to fly. \u00a0She had me help her tie on two capes, and she managed to attach a set of wings and a pink punch ball, all on her own. \u00a0Determined that these would assist her in her goal, and grinning with anticipation and the joy of the game, she headed out the door into the front yard.<\/p>\n

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She got\u00a0a\u00a0lovely lavender mat from Africa and dubbed it a magic carpet. \u00a0She sat down on the magic carpet and told her Aunt Anna that it didn’t go at first but she was just going to wait for it to happen. \"blog\u00a0Waiting is not my favorite thing to do, but often we just have to move forward with joy and anticipation, in faith, hoping for our dreams to come true. \u00a0Sometimes we wait for a very long time for an answer to prayer, sometimes we just don’t ever see results, but then there are the\u00a0times when we are blessed by certain joy in answers. \u00a0May we all find joy in the hoping and in the imagining, waiting on the Lord for the serious and the frivolous. \u00a0May we dance in the rain as we wait out the storms.<\/p>\n

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