Something Higher Than Jersey

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Luke 17:21 “Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.”

Yes, Whitney Houston was from Jersey and from the black race. However, God did not care about where she was from nor did it matter to him about her race. Whitney had something inside of her. God gave her singing talent and allowed her into the Rock-N-Roll world. She went in to entertain the world, but she didn’t forget to praise God. When she walked into the Rock-N-Roll world, she brought clean and meaningful music. After a while, something of that world did not want it. Whitney woke some people up with her talent. Minds started to open. Whitney was showing those in music what real music was about. Whitney had something from heaven and she was teaching it. She was a threat to something of that world called Rock-N-Roll. It is a world where evil doesn’t have to exist. Whitney Houston help to prove that by simply using what God had given her and carrying him with her wherever she went. 

Something about Whitney Houston didn’t connect with the spirit of some. Whitney was different with her talent and rare. It had nothing to do with being black or white. I do believe it had more to do with God. Whitney wanted the world to accept her, but when you are trying to stand for something good, you have to forget the world and do what is needed to be done. Let the world be the world. Whitney had something special and was not like the rest of the world with it. I wish I could have told her while she was living.

When God gives you something, you don’t need to be like everybody else. Just follow the Lord and do things the way he tells you to because his way is better. Whitney was clean with her music. And God allowed her to have success, fame, and money. But when you want the world to accept you, it makes you go in the direction of the world to fit in with everyone else. The Lord was Whitney’s very best friend. The world around her was doing her wrong.

Being from Jersey and being black was not important. Whitney had something higher than that. God was her maker. He was her family and the Lord of host.

Whitney Houston: The Group Sunday - I Know

 

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Whitney Houston and Robyn Crawford managed the girl group Sunday. I wrote about them a few times on this blog and finally found a video of their song, I Know. People still mention them, and I always wonder what they are doing now. I haven’t heard anymore news about them. I wish they would return and sing. They were an awesome singing group.

Sometimes It Only Looked Like Stress for Whitney Houston

 

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The media talked about Whitney Houston so bad. They made it looked as if Whitney was evil, going insane, and they always said she was on drugs. There were things some of the fans saw with their own eyes. They saw that she was overwhelmed sometimes, but they wanted those autographs. The media made it look and sound like Whitney was so terrible. However, people don’t like to look at things with wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. They just want to speak bad about a person. 

John 7:24 “Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

When they said Whitney Houston was doing drugs, it may not have always been drugs. I believe some of it was stress and depression. That may have drove her to drugs. That could happen to anyone. I don’t care who or what you may be. I know for myself that a lot of stress can cause you to have a break down. It can cause you to loose your hair. It can cause you to feel sick. I remember when one of my friends was found on the floor and couldn’t move because of stress. Stress can cause a lot of things. Sometimes real strange and unusual things. A person can’t take but so much.

Whitney Houston Could Have Been a Great Dancer

 

 

Whitney's MJ Tribute at Brisbane on 22 February 2010 

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There wasn’t anything that Whitney Houston could not do. The only time she couldn’t do something is when she just didn’t want to like cooking. But Whitney could do things. I’ve seen her roller blade. 

When Whitney married Bobby Brown, he brought some things out of her. Sometimes they would clown together and have fun. That’s when I noticed Whitney could have been a great dancer. She would clown with Bobby in front of the camera. I have seen them.

Singing and dancing can be a hard combination to do. It takes a lot to both sing and dance. Whitney concentrated  mostly on singing though she did move around on the stage. She didn’t have to worry about dancing singing slow songs. Sometimes dancing wasn’t needed anyway for Whitney. 

As I watched Whitney give tribute to Michael Jackson in video clips, I thought, Where did all of that energy come from? When did she start singing and dancing like Michael?  I believe Whitney could have learned to dance. I have seen her try to do the backslide. She knew how it was suppose to be done. Whitney just needed to glide. Dancing is just body movement, and Whitney could move some. She has it in her. I can tell as I watch her in the clips. I can see beyond her can’t do’s and dont’s. Whitney could have been a great dancer.

Whitney Houston: Man in the Mirror (Tribute to MJ)

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 Whitney Houston: …. When someone gives you five decades of their life to music; to entertaining you nonstop; five decades of his life, you must give him an applause. …

This is Whitney Houston’s opening night of her tour in Moscow, Russia.  She gave tribute to Michael Jackson singing Man in the Mirror. Whitney sounds kind of like Michael singing his song. The crowd loved it. Whitney could throw down when it came to MJ. 

Whitney should have been allowed to perform a song with Michael when they were alive. They were both greatly loved and talented. No harm would have been done. A lot of times the music business is just crazy. Michael and Whitney could have worked together on their own in a home studio. People need to learn how to rebel sometimes because nobody is always right. Sometimes you need to test things out and see what might happen or you’ll never know. If the two great stars would have made a flop, it just would have been a flop that’s all. Not the end of their careers. Mike and Whit had nothing to loose. They were already both giant stars. 

Watching Whitney give tribute to Michael is proof that she had a whole lot more to give. She wasn’t allowed to go but so far it seemed. She had to sing the kind of songs her producer wanted her to, but Whitney had a lot more within. Nobody tried to bring that part out, but it was there. I can see and recognize it. She had some of Michael’s style.

The Voice The Crown

 In the beginning, when I first saw Whitney, to me, she was a spiritual and special person. I do not remember any other singer like her in the days of the 80’s. When I saw her singing gospel with her mom and brother one night on television, I felt like there was some kind of hope for something better in life. Whitney was more than a singer. Whether she knew it or not, she was a leader. Whitney may not have been perfect in her personal life, but she was perfect enough that if she reached out to her fans and told them to stay away from the bad things in life, they probably would have done it because they looked up to her. 

Whitney Houston had some affect on me. It made me feel good that she grew up in church. It made me feel good to hear her stories how her mom got on her case, because the same stuff was happening to me. I thought people that grew up the way Whitney did couldn’t get a career in singing blues because of how she served God. Then, I learned that her mom was a singer too, and Whitney was blessed to make it. So I always kept my eyes and ears open some when it came to Whitney. I knew she was going to have some frustrations. I kind of understood who Whitney Houston was when she talked about her mom and her upbringing. For some odd reason, I felt like Whitney was my family. I still do.

When it was pronounced that Whitney passed away, I was in a very close relationship with God. My mom had passed away and then we lost another great singer. We had lost MJ, Aaliyah, Selena and then Whitney. The comforter had come to visit me. They were very important to some of us, and I know they were important to God as well. He told me to keep Whitney in my memory.

Today, I still think of Whitney. She was the queen in singing. I think of her as the voice who wears the crown.

Whitney’s Death Seemed Pretty Ironic

 

People are still thinking and talking about Whitney Houston. Some people have not quite gotten over her death. Some of us try to go on and have happy thoughts and memories of her. However, there is always something there to remind us that something’s is still not quite right. We know Whitney died, but she was doing alright before she died. We’re asking the question, how is she just going to die so suddenly? Some of us didn’t believe she was gone at first. The media said it was drugs, and that there were marks and bruises on her body. They made it sound like Whitney was in such a big fight, and that she had been drinking and partying. But I don’t quite believe all those things being said. Some say she was murdered and that drug dealers were after her. At first, I thought someone might have murdered her the minute I heard the news interrupt a program to pronounce that she was dead. For some reason, Whitney Houston is gone. The problem is Whitney’s death seemed so ironic. There are many of us that will never know what happened, but we know something was not right with Whitney at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Something went down.

The Postcard

 

By: Gail Nobles

It was back in the 80’s when I wrote Whitney Houston a letter. I didn’t know anything about her trials and tribulations, but I knew there might be some hard times for her like anyone else in life. So I sat down and wrote Whitney a Christian letter. I really liked her a lot and saw her as a person. I thought, “I don’t know why I’m writing Whitney. I know I probably won’t hear from her. Them Hollywood stars always talking about they busy. All they got to do is slap a stamp on an envelope.” Well lol, that’s the way I thought. That’s the way a teenager should have thought about a celebrity in those days. It was normal though celebrities get lots of fan mail. I didn’t understand. 

Well, as time went on, I had forgotten all about the letter I had sent off in the mail to Whitney. I don’t even remember what I wrote to her. I think I remember writing something about Moses and telling her not to give up. The day I was writing her, I do remember having that part on my mind.

One day I came home from school. When I got home, mom was standing in the doorway with a little tiny smile on her face. Just a tiny one. I knew something was up. She was looking at me and wouldn’t take her eyes off of me. Now that I think about it, she saw herself. She knew what she had in herself and knew about what I would do. I asked mom what was wrong.

She said, “You got a surprise in the mail.” Mom handed me a postcard from Whitney’s fanclub. I don’t remember writing to Whitney’s fanclub, but anyway, I got a postcard. Mom asked, “What’s the matter?”

I said, “Mom, Whitney might not have gotten my letter. How do I know she got it? It probably got into the hands of someone else. She didn’t actually answer me. This is fanclub stuff.”

Mom said, “She might have gotten it. At least you got something. You could have got nothing.”

I held the postcard in my hand for a long time examining what was on the card. I put the card aside and right this very day I don’t know what I did with that postcard. I wish I had the mind then like the mind I have now today lol. Like I said, I didn’t understand.