Chords for Edwin Hawkins' words after Homegoing of Bishop Walter Hawkins

Good morning [Gb] to my son and family.
It's [A] good to be [Bb] home.
I was away last [Bbm] weekend [Bb] and will have to be away next weekend again.
[Gb] But God is [Bb] good.
We're doing things for the Lord and working in the ministry.
And just glad that we [E] continue to be a part of this ministry [Bb] that my brother Bishop Walter [Am] Hawkins started [Gm] 38 years ago.
[Bb] I think it's the best church in the world.
I _ _ _
[C] _ _ [Bb] noticed something that saved my life.
My brother was somewhere else and didn't realize it.
When he accepted the call and shared with us in [Eb] Europe, when he told us that he had heeded [Bb] the call and we were going to go back and start the ministry.
We started in our [Bbm] home.
My brother and father said that we [Bb] started in the basement of the prayer [Bbm] service only.
[Bb] And invited young people that had sort of rebelled and left the church [A] at that time to the club and invited them.
That's how the service [Bbm] got [Bb] started. _ _
38 years and bless me to still be here.
[B] I had the chance [Bb] to express my love to Pastor Sandy and [Eb] Pastor Ron LaCroix.
[Bb] We were here and had a wonderful service.
I admire both of you because you were [G] subject enough and humble [Bb] enough to be [Bbm] under [Bb] Bishop Hawkins.
You all were [Ab] just there to fill in for me.
_ _ _ _ I didn't realize he was [Bb] 36 until I met him in Rome.
He said, what's your [Bbm] name?
I said, [Bb] God raised you up and you look wonderful this morning.
_ [F] I just wanted to express to our [Bb] family, you know, we've lost a great [Eb] man and heaven has gained a [Gm] great man.
[Bm] If [Bb] we're in my power, I'll bring him back.
We have to be [Ab] able to say, God, your perfect will [Bbm] be done.
[Gm] And that's what I've said in my heart and my spirit.
So we miss him greatly.
[A] I think if you loved him as [Gm] much as I did or as much as our [Bb] family did, [Gb] half as [G] much, you loved him a whole lot. _
_ _ Pastor Sandy [Bbm] allowed us to have what was [Bb] 30 days [Eb] of mourning.
_ She announced to us that [Bbm] we can't put a time on your [Gm] period of mourning.
That you're going to do what you have to do.
[G] But that was the end of that 30 days based on scholarship.
[Bb] We got an interesting email from one of our members that was very concerned [Bbm] and displeased with the way that we didn't handle [G] things concerning our pastor's death.
_ [Bb] _ I'll just leave [Gm] it this way.
There was a whole lot of things.
The pastor was a very simple, very humble man.
Didn't [Bb] like a lot of, _ what do you call it, the pomp and ceremony.
All that stuff.
He was not that way.
Very [Bbm] down to earth, humble man.
_ And so, _ [Bb] we could maybe, I could ask you, should we have followed the [E] _
[Bb] founder's wishes concerning this?
Or should we have followed yours?
We all have an idea of the way [Gm] a bishop's service should have been.
Well, that's not the way that you thought it should be because you weren't him.
Or should we have acknowledged [Bb] his wishes? _
[E] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ [Bb] So the email, I don't want to go into the detail, but the email went on to criticize almost [D] everything in the way that it was [A] done.
And I just want to say to you all that we know that [Bb] everyone is grieving.
But you have to allow us to receive according to his wishes, not yours. _ _ _ _ _
[A] Which also includes the desire that he can create it.
[G] And that's been done.
[Gb] _
And I [Gm] love all that he knew that.
_ _ [Bb] We have not yet decided [Bbm] who we're going to go out and [Gm] spread those ashes.
[Eb] But at some point, the family will go out and do a private ceremony.
If you allow us to do that.
_ [B] _ _
_ _ But to be fair [Bb] though, because I know that all of us have had [A] opinions [G] about what has gone on, what has happened.
But we had to _ acknowledge his wishes.
[Gm] We had to ask exactly what he said.
Because we know [G] that he was wrong.
So, we're going to say, I'm not going to do that. _
[A] Criticize that he was a mob, mobbing the state.
[Bbm] It's a place.
[Bb] He did not know that. _
_ So, we had to please him in his wishes.
And allow his wishes.
And not yours.
I'm just sorry about that.
And we're still going to be there.
Every day is hard.
Because I don't have the respect to tell everything to you. Every day.
Good to see you here.
Long lost cousin.
Good to see you here.
_ [Eb] Haven't seen him in [Bb] 20 years.
Or more.
Some of you all remember my aunt.
I think we have only one blood aunt living here.
Which is Aunt Nadine Johnson.
Who comes every now and [Cm] then.
[Bb] And she was married to your brother, right?
That was her first husband.
But we said they were cousins.
_ _ And she's got more.
You _ know Johnson so much. _
Like us, you always come.
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ _ Well, we love you [B] all.
We appreciate your concerns.
Keep praying for us.
Because we're still going through.
As you're still going [Bb] through.
It's going to take time.
I learned through my mother's death.
That you never [Abm] get over the loss.
[Bb] But you do adjust.
To the loss.
Because you have to keep going.
That's [F] what God would have us do.
Keep going.
I made a commitment [Bb] verbally to my nephew.
I'm going to be behind you 100%.
Sometimes I feel like I'm sorry that [E] I said that.
But I committed [Bm] myself.
[Bb] _ _ _
_ _ _ Over here.
I'm here for you.
[Bbm] Sometimes I don't feel so [Bb] strong.
I feel like I'm going to lose it.
But I called.
And got a number.
Of [Ab] a counselor. _ _
[Gm] _ _ I need you.
_ [Bm] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [B] You know what's really nice about time.
[Bb] _
_ _ [A] People text.
_ We always tell people during this time.
[Gb] Be strong.
[Ab] Don't cry.
That's been a wrong thing.
_ [Bbm] _ Cry.
[B] Scream it out.
[Bb] Whatever you got to do.
Because we need it to.
We got to [Bbm] release that.
If [Bb] you don't.
It will make you physically sick.
It [Fm] will make you mentally sick.
[Abm] So don't [Bb] be strong.
It's time to be able to handle everything.
It's time to be fly.
It's time to be weak.
It's time to be strong.
This is the time to cry.
[Bbm] This is the time to love.
To love and be sick.
Alright.
We love [B] him.
But God loves you.
[Bb] Is this it?
God loves you.
[B] God bless your heart.
We love you sometimes.
You know it seems like [Ab] I'm somewhere else.
Please look over [Bb] my [F] little mood.
[G] My sister had a pregnancy in my church [Eb] the other day.
The cafe is open.
_ [Bb] And I've been snapping and being real short of a patient.
I said to him, I said I'm not going to have to go for treatment.
Because I'm just not handling any of this with all the love. _ _ _
_ _ _ So you all need to understand [B] what we're all dealing with.
I love you so [Eb] much.
Make a wish.
We love [Ab] you too. _