Live the Dream

Please welcome the newest member of my team (my real life job). Karen is a 17 year cancer survivor and the president and founder of the Ivan and Sam Foundation, an organization devoted to helping children with cancer and their families fight this terrible disease.

From her website:

Life was good again until her early twenties when Karen was diagnosed with cancer. For a brief moment her world once again, stopped. Karen went through radical treatments and surgeries until she was cancer free.

But true to herself and to those around her, she showed that she would not be deterred from doing what she loved. In May 1998, Karen attended the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life. This event spawned a life-changing move that would forever change Karen’s career, her life, her faith and all those involved – she for the first time walked the survivors lap.

With A New Light

Two years later, Karen returned to the studio. After meeting with Independent Record Label, Rogue Records President and Producer Lee Davis of Atlanta, Georgia, Karen teamed up with writers and began a new album – This time, it was the secular world of music calling Karen. One of her penned songs was based on the Relay for Life event she experienced two years earlier. The song was called “Live The Dream” and its message reached out to all cancer survivors and families of cancer victims. “The song not a typical country song, but one that crossed over into the Christian sector of music. It was a song about hope. With that song, I found a way to help millions who suffer from cancer and to help their families find comfort and hope,” stated Karen. The song became a national theme to thousands of survivors at the nearly 4000 Relay’s for Life across America.

Live the Dream

Everyday a life is touched
By darkness and despair
Tears of pain we cannot understand
Yet through unity we bring
The strength of all our dreams
Our hands, our hearts, our hopes, our
Prayers of peace
(Chorus)
For now the time has come to believe in the light
A light that shines so far beyond the dark
If we all reach out and sing
To create the harmony
The we all can join as one
And Live the Dream
Small flames become a glow
That the wind of life can't blow
This beacon holds the spirit of our hope
As we celebrate the lives
With courage and with pride
Hearts touch hearts as we walk the walk for life
(Chorus)
Let's light the candles and hold each others' hands
Walking toward our dreams
Singing all the way
"We Can"
(Chorus)
Then we all can join as one and live the dream