by Catsy Jones

Created on: July 10, 2009   Last Updated: July 13, 2009

My favorite song is "My Angel" by Kellie Pickler. She and I have a lot in common, and that is why I like her as a singer in the first place. Both of us are survivors. My biological mother left me when I was a baby, I had an abusive childhood with my first step-mom, and I ended up moving in with my grandmother who became like my mother. When my grandmother died it was very hard for me to bear. She was everything to me. She was my mother, my best friend, everything to me. When I heard "My Angel" for the very first time, I was amazed. It was everything I had ever wanted to tell my grandmother but could never find the words.

"Every day when school got out I get off the bus and I'd run down that old dirt road where you were waiting for me". I can remember getting out of school on the days when grandma was home early from work, and she would be waiting for me, too. We didn't have a dirt road, but I remember running into our apartment, and hugging her tight.

"On the front porch in that blue swing you'd be smiling and we would sing Amazing Grace and Jesus Loves Me." Well we didn't have a blue porch swing, but she would be smiling. And we would sing, we used to sing Elvis on her 8 track. We would sing "Go Rest High on That Mountain", which was our favorite song.

"You were like my mother. You were my best friend. You were everything I want to be and all the good inside of me. There's never been... Never been another... Who loved me like you did. My grandmother. My angel." When no one else wanted me she took me in. When no one else seemed to care she was always there for me. She was my mother. She was my angel. She was my best friend.

"Even though I can't touch your face, I feel you with me everyday and I wish you could see all my dreams coming true." Even though I'm not rich and don't have a ton of money, I have much, much more. I have three beautiful children, a husband who adores me. And I wish she was here to see it all. And even though she's not here physically, I know my grandmother is in my heart and watching over me. And sometimes I can feel her right here.

"When I get lost I close my eyes and I feel you shining down so bright, I feel you shining down on me." In my worst moments, I can feel her closer than ever. She hasn't left me. And she never will.

"You were like my mother. You were my best friend. You were everything I want to be and all the good inside of me. There's never been... Never been another... Who loved me like you did. My grandmother. My angel." I don't know how I would have turned out without my grandmother in my life. How wonderful God is, because in all of his infinite wisdom he gave her to me, and gave me my very own angel and best friend.

"You were like my mother. You were my best friend. You were everything I want to be and all the good inside of me. There's never been... Never been another... Who loved me like you did. My grandmother. My angel. My angel." I want to thank my grandmother for everything she has ever done for me. I loved her then, and love her still. Sleep peacefully my angel, and all of the other angels who were saviors to their grandchildren, and thank you to all the ones still on Earth, and loving their grandchildren, and keeping them as God keeps us all.

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