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CEDAR-GROVE EIGHT

LORD, WE THANK YOU FOR THE TIME WE HAD ON THIS EARTH;  

WE CAN’T CONTROL WHAT HAPPENED TO US, LORD, WE WANT TO SAY  

THANK YOU FIRST.  

OUR TIME WAS CUT SHORT, YES INDEED, FATHER GOD, WE ASK YOU TO  

STRENGTHEN OUR LOVED ONES AS THEY GO THROUGH,   

LET THEIR MINDS AND HEARTS BE TURNED TO YOU.  

FATHER GOD, WE ASK YOU TO SATURATE THE ATMOSPHERE WITH YOUR  

HOLY SPIRIT,  

LET THE TRAGEDY OF OUR LIVES BRING ABOUT CHANGE TO THOSE THAT  

HEAR IT.  

FATHER GOD, ACCEPT OUR SPIRITS UNTO YOU;  

WE DID WHAT WE COULD AND WHAT WE WERE TAUGHT TO DO.  

FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS, LORD WE SAY THANK YOU;  

A VIOLENT DEATH IS NEVER GREAT  

AND LORD WE STILL SAY THANK YOU FROM THE CEDAR-GROVE EIGHT.  


Dr. Curtis C. Brown Jr. 

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