I have never known anyone so positive, optimistic, joyful, inspiring, loving, compassionate, forgiving, and merciful. Angie Crabtree Reynolds knew how to live each day in the moment. She taught me so much about life – how to really live and really love people. She would do things for you simply because she was thinking about you, because she cared from the depths of her heart, not because she wanted or expected anything in return. The small things in life were the most important things to her, which really turn out to be the big things in the end. They are the things that take hold of your heart and never let it go. She was never afraid to hug you and tell you, ‘I love you’ before parting ways, in fact, she was persistent.

Angie was such a positive person that she had me fooled about the severity of her cancer. I believed she would beat it, she believed she would beat it, everyone around her believed she would beat it. If there was anyone on this planet I knew who could overcome cancer, I didn’t doubt it would definitely be Angie. And I guess in the end she has beat it (even though it ultimately ended her earthly life), because she now has the victory of eternal life. Death does not prevail.

Lord, tonight and every night I ask you to wrap our dear Angie in your Heavenly arms. May she always be at your side in Heaven resting in your peace and abundant love. May she be free from all the hurts and pains this world brought to her and always look down on us to be with us and carry us through. Angie, thank you for sharing part of your life with me. Thank you for the abundant laughs and heartfelt moments. I cherish every second I was able to spend with you and every memory we made together. I love you with my whole heart, my dear angel friend! Until we see each other again, please fly by my side both day and night.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be. [JOHN 14:1-3]

Angie is in yellow – thankful for this “Opry family”}