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25.2.08

Larry Norman has passed

MESSAGE FROM SOLID ROCK - PLEASE READ

Hello everybody.Our friend and my wonderful brother Larry passed away at
2:45 Sunday morning. Kristin and I were with him, holding his hands and
sitting in bed with him when his heart finally slowed to a stop. We
spent this past week laughing, singing, and praying with him, and all
the while he had us taking notes on new song ideas and instructions on
how to continue his ministry and art.Several of you friends here got to
come and visit with him in the last couple of weeks and were a great
source of help and friendship to Larry.Ray Sievers, Derek Robertson,
Mike Makinster, Matt Simmons, and a fewmore. Thank you guys. Larry
appreciated your visits very much. And he greatly appreciated the
thoughts, wishes, support and prayers that came from all of you Army
members on a daily basis. Thank you for being part of his small circle
of friends over the years. Yesterday afternoon he knew he was going to
go home to God very soon and he dictated the following message to you
while his friend Allen Fleming typed these words into Larry's computer:___

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I feel like a prize in a box of cracker jacks with God's hand reaching
down to pick me up. I have been under medical care for months. My wounds
are getting bigger. I have trouble breathing. I am ready to fly home.My
brother Charles is right, I wont be here much longer. I cant do anything
about it. My heart is too weak. I want to say goodbye to everyone. In
the past you have generously supported me with prayer and finance and we
will probably still need financial help. My plan is to be buried in a
simple pine box with some flowers inside.But still it will be costly
because of funeral arrangement,transportation to the gravesite,
entombment, coordination, legal papers etc. However money is not really
what I need, I want to say I love you.I'd like to push back the darkness
with my bravest effort. There will be a funeral posted here on the
website, in case some of you want to attend. We are not sure of the date
when I will die. Goodbye, farewell,we will meet again.Goodbye, farewell,
we'll meet again Somewhere beyond the sky.I pray that you will stay with
God Goodbye, my friends, goodbye.Larry
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Thank you to all of you who were so nice to my brother over the
years.Kristin and I will post funeral information in the next day or
two. Right now we're not able to function very well, but the whole
family is here... our mother Margaret, our sisters Nancy and Kristy,
Mike Norman and his new wife Tiffany, and Silver.We miss him beyond
words. Thank you for everything.
Peace to you all in Christ, Charles Norman
http://www.larrynorman.com/news/022408.html

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see you soon larry ... thank you for songs that pierced my very being and for showing me the path less travelled by ... it truly has made all the difference (amos dettonville).

here's a timely song by larry: http://songza.com/z/gpfdpl

news should be up at http://www.larrynorman.com/ sometime soon (if not now. i just got this via email - and that's enough for now)