Read Angie's Thoughts

I'm spending the final hours of 2014 with a heavy heart and tears rolling down my cheeks. It's hard to look back at this past year in it's entirety when the past few days have been full of hard and painful stuff. Many deaths have hit our community in recent days, some people I've know and others I haven't, and hearts are weary. A woman I've never met but is part of the Scentsy community lost her precious baby boy days after he was born prematurely. A well-known man from my hometown lost his wife after many years of illness. A friend from Trinity said good-bye to her mom on Christmas Eve and although her mom had lived a long and fruitful life, my friend is still heartbroken. The death that has hit me more than the others, though, is that of my dear friend Linda Howerton. Linda was diagnosed with an incurable form of cancer a year and a half ago and when she came home to live out her final days, I wrote this blog wondering how in the world I would ever say good

Some heavy thoughts and painful realizations have got me to the place of writing this blog. It started with a post on FB about some friendships followed by a talk on the phone with a good friend and sister in Christ. She told me something that has stuck with me for days, something I have struggled with in most of my 33 years and probably will continue to struggle with for the next 33... "You are worth more than bones." This came from a conversation about a friendship I'm struggling with. This friend and I seem to have drifted apart over the past few years and while that breaks my heart, I realize friends come into our lives for different season and reasons. My season with this friend is coming to an end and I am beyond thankful for the years we were close as she was such a blessing and inspiration in my life. I've always had a low self-esteem. Always. I think it comes from the abuse I endured as a child as well as growing up without a mom around. I've never