New Beginnings

December 31, 2014 we celebrated the upcoming year and said goodbye to the year that had passed us by like every other had before. As we brought in the New Year, a friend handed me a book she had treasured the year before. Each page contained a date and a quote. 365 days and 365 quotes. Although I read the quotes each morning and let them linger with me throughout the day, I never had the encouragement I needed to post what I thought about each one.

January 30, 2015 we lost a beautiful soul and gained an angel. As the community came together to honor her we each learned something about ourselves and about each other. Those I had never spoken to were hugging me, and those I had loose ends with apologized. I could go on for post after post about what occurred in the time following Bree's death, but each person has to tell their own story and that isn't what I'm here to do.

February 8, 2015 we buried her yesterday and because her life was cut short the life each of us were given will be treasured endlessly. Her life as well as her death has encouraged me to tell MY story and spread MY word before family, friends, and strangers have to tell it for me.

Thank you for letting your life encourage me to shoot for the Heavens.