OUR DADDY, WE LOVE AND MISS YOU SO MUCH. IT'S BEEN ALREADY 25 YEARS, BUT IT SEEM'S LIKE WE HEARD YOUR LAUGH AND SEEN YOUR SWEET SMILE ONLY YESTERDAY. OUR DEAR FATHER SERVED IN THE NAVY DURING W.W.II. DADDY CAME HOME FROM WAR AND SHORTLY AFTER MET OUR BEAUTIFUL MOTHER CARMEL LEE CUTLIP. AFTER DATING A FEW MONTH'S HE MADE HER HIS BRIDE. IN 1954 THE TWINS WERE BORN, SHARON AND KAREN. IN 1957 ANOTHER BABY GIRL, BRENDA, WAS BORN. IN 1958 ALONG CAME JOANN AND IN 1963, VONNIE WAS BORN. DADDY ALWAY'S WANTED A SON, BUT INSTEAD GOD BLESSED DADDY WITH 5 GIRLS. HE WAS A DEVOTED FATHER, TO HIS DAUGHTER'S HE WAS THE BEST. WE WILL LOVE YOU TILL THE END OF TIME........ ONE OF MY FONDEST MEMORY'S OF CHILDHOOD. WAS GOING TO THE OLD COUNTRY CHURCH WITH MOM AND DAD. DADDY HAD A STRONG FAITH IN GOD. I KNOW THAT DADDY IS WITH THE LORD, AND I KNOW HE'S WAITING FOR HIS GIRLS. OUR DAD MEANT EVERYTHING TO US AND I KNOW WE MEANT EVERYTHING TO HIM. DAD WAS THE KINDEST PERSON I THINK I'VE EVER KNOWN. WHEN THE LORD SAID TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER, THAT CAME VERY EASY TO DADDY, HE CARED ABOUT EVERYONE, AND EVERYONE LOVED HIM. HE WOULD GIVE HIS SHIRT OFF HIS BACK TO HELP A FRIEND, AND GIVE HIS LAST DOLLAR TO A STRANGER. IT IS NOT FAR AWAY, THE PLACE TO WHICH THEY GO..... IT IS JUST BEYOND THE STARLIT SKIES, IT IS WHERE THE MOONBEAMS GROW. AND NIGHT IS DAY, AND DAY IS NIGHT, AND SORROW COMES NOMORE. WHERE LOVE ABIDES, BEYOND THE TIDES, UPON A GOLDEN SHORE. AND WE MUST WAIT HERE FOR AWHILE, UNTIL IT'S TIME TO GO. ALTHOUGH WE CARRY ON, WE MOURN, BECAUSE WE MISS THEM SO. AND THROUGH THE YEARS, GOD DRIES OUR TEARS....HE SAID "MY PEACE I GIVE", AND FOR EACH HOUR, WE HAVE THE POWER, BECAUSE OUR SAVIOR LIVES......... IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW......... GOD BROUGHT ME UP TO HEAVEN, WHEN IT WAS MY TIME TO GO. HE HELD MY HAND THROUGH THE LIGHT, I WANTED YOU TO KNOW. HE TOLD ME OF HIS LOVE, AND HOW IT WOULD ALWAY'S BE. ENDLESS AND ETERNAL, SOMEDAY YOU TO WILL SEE. IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW, I SPREAD MY WINGS AND FLY, I WATCH YOU DOWN BELOW, IM AN ANGEL IN THE SKY. IM GOING TO SEE YOU AGAIN SOMEDAY, IT'S TIME THAT KEEPS US APART. BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE MORE THAN LOVE, TO ASK GOD INTO YOUR HEART. IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW, IN HEAVEN UP ABOVE, IM HAPPY EVER AFTER, I'LL SPEND ETERNITY IN LOVE. WHEN YOU ENTER HEAVEN, YOU'LL BE HAPPY IN EVERY WAY. BUT ALWAY'S BE READY, TODAY MIGHT BE YOUR DAY. I WISH YOU COULD HAVE SEEN GOD OPEN UP THE GATE. HE SMILED AND SAID, "YOU'RE HOME CHILD" AND THEN CARRIED ME AWAY.... THOUGH TODAY YOU WALK IN SORROW. YOU WILL NOT BE ALONE. THERE IS ONE THERE IS ONE WHOSE LOVING WISDOM, IS FAR GREATER THAN OUR OWN. PUT YOUR TRUSTING HAND IN HIS, AS A LITTLE CHILD WOULD DO. AND HE LIKE A LOVING FATHER, WILL GUIDE AND COMFORT YOU. DAY BY DAY, THERE WILL COME TO YOU NEW FAITH, NEW HOPE, NEW LIGHT. YOU'LL FIND THAT STARS UNSEEN BY DAY, SHINE THROUGH THE DARKEST NIGHT. AND THOUGH YOUR HEART IS LONGING, FOR THE DEAR ONE,WHO'S AT REST. YOU'LL KNOW BEFORE THE JOURNEYS END, THAT GOD'S DEAR WAYS ARE BEST........ DADDY WALKING HIS DAUGHTER JOANN DOWN THE ISLE,,, DADDY WALKING HIS DAUGHTER KAREN DOWN THE ISLE YESTERDAY..........WHEN I THINK OF MY DADDY, ALOT COMES TO MIND. WHEN I TAKE A WALK IN THE COUNTRY, MY DADDY'S NOT HARD TO FIND....HE'S IN THE COOL SPRING MORNING, BIRD'S SINGING AS THEY FLY, HE'S THE MIGHTY OAK, SO STRONG AND TALL, BRANCH'S REACHING FOR THE SKY....HE'S THE WALK DOWN AN OLD DIRT ROAD, AND THE FLOWER'S THAT'S GROWING WILD, HE'S THE CORNFIELD, SWAYING IN THE BREEZE, AND THAT DANDELION PICKED BY A CHILD....HE'S THE STREAM THAT'S FLOWING QUIETLY BY, HE'S THAT WARM RAIN FALLING FROM THE SKY, HE'S A DISTANT CALL OF A WIPPER-WILL, AND THAT ROBIN PERCHED ON THE WINDOW-SILL....HE'S A THOUSAND WINDS THAT BLOW, A HUNDRED RIVERS THAT FLOW, HE'S THE RAY OF THE MORNING LIGHT, THE BRIGHTEST STAR ON A COUNTRY NIGHT....HE'S THE TEAR FALLING FROM MY EYE, GOD KNOW'S ALL THE TEAR'S I'VE CRIED, WHILE THINKING OF DADDY AND THE THING'S I'D SAY, IF ONLY I COULD GO BACK TO YESTERDAY...