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what god lives is never a coincidence and more than some happenstance it was a beautiful service. stevie wonder, just one of her friends saluting her during the funeral services at houston s hometown church in new jersey. alicia keys, art kelly, all honoring houston with their voices. stars like tyler perry and kevin costner told personal stories in memory of the superstar. aretha franklin was scheduled to be there but had to cancel because she wasn t feeling well. the service included a letter from her daughter, bobby christina. it read god said it s time, your work is done. thanks for being a wonderful daughter. as for her ex-husband, bobby brown, he says in a written statement he wasn t happy about being asked to move three times and says security kept him from seeing his daughter. so he left because i refused to create a scene. in all, it was roughly a four-hour homegoing tribute to whitney houston and punctuating the service today, a recording of louf ....
i will always love you the sound of houston s biggest hit i will always love you as pallbearers carried her casket out. the moment began with these remarks we re here today, hearts broken but yet with god s strength, we celebrate the life of whitney houston. [ applause ] opening the service, joe carter, pastor of the new hope baptist church, houston s famous friends one after another gave stunningly poignant tributes, like tyler perry. there was a grace that carried her. a grace that carried her from heaven down through cissy houston. a grace that brought her up through singing. from what i understand, she wasn t supposed to be able speak, let alone sing because of an incident that happened as a child. but there was a grace that kept on carrying her all the way through. this same grace led her all the way to the top of the charts. sold all of these albums and done some amazing things, won all these awards she s sang for presidents. there was a grace that k ....
i will always love you the moment capped a moving funeral service that began with these remarks. we re here today, hearts broken, but yet, with god s strength we celebrate the life of whitney houston. opening the service, joe carter, pastor of the new hope baptist church, houston s famous friends one after another gave stunningly poignant tributes like actor and filmmaker tyler perry. there was a grace that carried, a grace that carried her from heaven down through miss cissy houston. a grace that brought her up through singing. a grace that from what i understand she wasn t supposed to be able to speak let alone speak because of an incident that happened as a child. but there was a grace that kept on carrying her all the way through. the same grace led her all the way to the top of the charts, sold all of these albums and just done some amazing things, won all these awards. she s sang for presidents, and there was a grace that kept on carrying her. gospel s ....
i will always love you the sound of houston s biggest hit i will always love you as pallbearers carried her casket out. the moment began with these remarks we re here today, hearts broken but yet with god s strength, we celebrate the life of whitney houston. [ applause ] opening the service, joe carter, pastor of the new hope baptist church, houston s famous friends one after another gave stunningly poignant tributes, like tyler perry. there was a grace that carried her. a grace that carried her from heaven down through cissy houston. a grace that brought her up through singing. from what i understand, she wasn t supposed to be able speak, let alone sing because of an incident that happened as a child. but there was a grace that kept on carrying her all the way through. this same grace led her all the way to the top of the charts. sold all of these albums and done some amazing things, won all these awards she s sang for presidents. there was a grace that k ....