mouth and medicitation of my het be acceptable in thy sight. oh, lord, my strength in my redeemer and every glad heart say amen. amen. the first thing i want to do, i want to give honor to the pastor of this church, pastor carter. and for his spirit of humility. [ applause ] i want to thank mama hughous, cissy, for your just willingness to forget about everything else and have this service here. that took a lot of courage [ applause ] and because of that, you brought the world to church today. i want to give honor to all of the bishops and pastors and folk that have come. i want to assure you that i won t be that long, but i ve been waiting on y all all day. so i want to make a couple of disclaimers. one, that most of this homily will be done in english, but old habits are hard to break, so if you hear language you don t understand, don t worry about it, because i wasn t talking to you no how. i was hoping that cece would have been singing before i m going to do s