"God don't make nobodies. He gives us a choice we must make carefully; each person in this world has the chance to be somebody."� This line from Catherine Shepard Smith's song "Nobodies"� on her first album, Heart to Heart, is one she seems intent on living up to.

I remember watching in awe as my mother and the other grown-ups took communion while I stood with my finger pressed to my lips as Father Hayes blessed me. I so desperately wanted to be a part of what I was being taught was a miraculous version of the body and blood of Jesus Christ, my savior.