God's Angel, by Tonya Dorsey

For only a moment of time

Just for a second, now you're gone

I'm grateful for the times you were here

You've got your wings and now you fly

Angel fly, way up high, heaven open

You've got your wings and now you fly

Heaven opened up, you smiled,

and I saw God's light in your smile.




Tonya Dorsey is the choir director at St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church in North Philadelphia.  She wrote God's Angel after her mother died of pancreatic cancer in 2011.  "During Mass Sunday her choir sang and dedicated God's Angel to the victims and survivors of the Dec. 14 school massacre in Newtown, CT."(Thanks to the Philadelphia Inquirer and Jessica Parks.  Parks wrote the article "Hymn for Newtown" which appeared on the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, Christmas Eve Day.)