Whitney Houston

I was at Riverbend when Whitney Houston came here with her first project when I was in high school. If ever asked which Whitney Houston song is my favorite, hands down it is "How Will I Know". That song only comes second to my all time favorite song "Rock With You" by Michael Jackson. Whitney's music has taken me from high school, to college, to becoming a parent. Like Whitney I have had my share of obstacles, that according to my mother, most people probably would have taken an easier way out and possibly even their own life. The major differences in our stories is that hers has been magnified and ran through the media over the past years.

What we can't deny about Whitney is that voice...that voice! Whitney is like any other woman searching for love and self-acceptance. There have been many negative stories about her over the years but her true fans have stayed planted knowing that her time would come to come back. Not with just another project but with a story of being unbreakable. Earlier this week, as I was driving to work I hear the song "I Didn't Know My Own Strength". My jaw dropped and I stared at the radio in amazement of Whitney singing the story of the past several years of my life.

There were many days and nights when I didn't know my own strength. I didn't know how I was going to keep it all together and stay sane. The enemy would creep into my thought processes and further attempt me to believe that I would not make it through. But God has a plan! And I did not crumble, I stayed in the process with all of its hurt, confusion, and disappointments. I can sit here at 11:41p.m and tell you I didn't know my own strength. I didn't know I would survive through all of it. I didn't know I could survive through all of it. Many days I thought I was down for the count.

Whitney has gone through it and survived it. Those who truly love her will embrace her and her new project, "I Look to You", that is due to come out on August 31, 2009. On September 14 I will plant myself in front of the television to watch Oprah in what is being called "the most anticipated music interview of the decade". Coco Brother has been playing some tracks from the project on his show and I tell you what, from what I have heard this project is incredibly inspirational and incredibly uplifting. I don't even want to hear what the critics have to say until I have heard "I Look to You" in its entirety.

I say a prayer with every heartbeat,


Lindar