I believe

It was late the night of January 28, 1998, when my grandmother called us and said

Our grandfather had just passed away, about 7 o’clock that night….coming back from PaPa’s restaurant, his favorite place to eat

She said he just leaned forward, moaned O’ my back, and fell backwards into the seat, it upset my family when it happened, but the Lord appeared to us and said everything is going to be alright

And I believe, that our loved ones are among us, even if they’re dead and gone,

and I have faith that one day I will rejoin them and never be alone

Well it wasn’t too long after that, that my Uncle Jesse, my granddaddy’s brother, passed away, but it gave me relief to know that he had been a preacher, and had never quit following the lord

And I believe, that our loved ones are among us, even if they’re dead and gone,

and I have faith that one day I will rejoin them and never be alone

Now every now and then, I’ll be sitting alone and feeling blue,

And I can feel my past loved ones telling me not to worry everything's gonna be alright

And I believe, that our loved ones are among us, even if they’re dead and gone,

and I have faith that one day I will rejoin them and never be alone

By: Michael McDonald Jr.

Written April 24, 1998

Dedication:

To two men that I never got a chance to really know, my great-grandfather, J. C. Sewell, and my great-Uncle Jesse Sewell