I don't know what I've done in my life to be so blessed. I had a brother named Daniel, when I was forty years old he passed. I met a man named Thomas and a man named Lamont. I didn't know when I met them they'd become my new brothers. I never had a younger brother and I never knew what it would feel like to have a healthy older and younger brother. For my brother Daniel had been sick his entire life. I'm not a wise man, but I'm smart enough to see the working of the Almighty when its produced before my eyes. To my eyes, so clearly as through the actions of my two brothers to me. Their kindness and self-effacing couldn't have been through any agency but the Lord. The love, kindness and compassion shown to me by these two men not of my own blood is all the proof I'll ever need of the province of the Almighty! Amen. Always remember, "money don't solve a thing, people do!" I've met you at my tenth hour, Bishop Bershawn. I wished I would've met you at the beginning of my first. I have met Jewish Rabbis whom I loved immensely. I've met ministers and priests mostly of Catholic or Baptist faith. I've lived in an age where foolish whites hated those with black skin. As an old dying white man, I've never met anyone who have given me so much love of the Almighty than you, Bishop Bershawn. {I'm truly a foolish man because I was afraid of your embrace}!! What a fine, loving and devoted brother you are. You are my brother as well as my Bishop!! – The Late Alexander Hardy.
