Whitney Houston May You Rest In Peace And Sing With The Angels

Whitney Houston may you rest in peace and sing with the angels. It was a sad evening as we turned on our TV's to find another wonderful singer gone too soon, at such a young age. We expect older people to die, but we are always shocked to hear of a young famous person's death.

Many of us never personally knew her, but her music touched our hearts and we feel blessed to have heard her music. I was always saddened to hear of past turmoil in Whitney Houston's life with addiction. Unfortunately drugs have caused so much harm to such wonderful people.

I often wonder how as a society, we can do such seemingly impossible things like put people in space, send robots to mars, create space stations, yet we can't come up with a sure fire way to cure addiction.

As a parent of young children, I pray my children don't go through any substance addiction issues as they grow up.

One seemingly common thread I notice is that often people have self esteem issues, which perhaps play a part in their addictive disease. Do these issues come from childhoold or experiences or is someone predisposed biologically to have self esteem issues, has often been a question in my mind. Perhaps, it is a combination of both. There is an article I found as follows about that at 4therapy.com

Ironically the lyrics in her "Greatest Love Of All" song speak directly about loving yourself. "Learning to love yourself. It is the greatest love of all."

Whitney Houston had the voice of an angel and her voice was an inspiration to many singers. I hope people who loved her will look at their own lives and if they are having similar struggles, will reach out for the help they need to recover before it is too late.

Granted at this time, we do not know if substance abuse had anything to do with her death, but it certainly affected her life in a negative way.

Whitney Houston's death should remind us, that if any of us have people in our lives who struggle with addiction, we should love them and encourage them to seek help as many times as it takes.

As Whitney Houston reminds us in her song, we need to show our children all the beauty they possess inside and give them a sense of pride so they can love themselves. (and hopefully avoid the self esteem issues that can lead to substance abuse).

Thank you Whitney Houston for all the beautiful music you provided to the world and for sharing the gift of your voice with us! I hope you have found everlasting peace!