Whitney Houston And The Problems Of Life
Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin ArticlesPop music icon, Whitney Houston, will be remembered Saturday in New Jersey at a private memorial service. Many celebrities in the music and entertainment industry will be in attendance. Whitney was only 48 years old at the time of her death, a relatively young woman with an already successful singing career, cut short in the prime of her life.
The cause of her death is presently being determined, but more than likely, her death was caused by alcohol, drugs, or a combination of both (see article).
Like many celebrities who have died before they reached the age of 50 (see article), Whitney Houston had major ongoing problems with drugs and alcohol, causing her to enter into a drug rehabilitation facility in 2011.
FamousCelebrityDrugAddicts.com states that “Whitney has repeatedly denied that she is addicted to drugs and has even publicly denied that she takes drugs of any kind, but friends and witnesses have seen the evidence that is left behind after her regular binges.”
The following statements from the above web site are telling: “Rumors have surfaced recently that Whitney is spending nearly $6,000 a day on cocaine and other drugs. One party promoter who witnessed her destructive behavior recently stated that he would not be surprised if Whitney Houston lost her life and her battle with addiction within a matter of months from the amount of drugs she was consuming.”
An astute observation from the above site is,
“One of the most important steps in recovery is accepting that you have a problem (and apparently going into rehab didn’t drive this home). Until that happens, then there is nothing that anyone can do to help you overcome a drug addiction.”
The above observation is very true. The only way that Whitney Houston could have broken her cycle of drug and alcohol use, would have been for health care professionals to have gradually taken her off drugs and alcohol by degrees. Then, in order for her to have maintained a healthy regimen, she would have had to have replaced her drug habit with a healthy habit.
Obviously, Whitney chose not to relinquish her drug and alcohol use. She used these elements as a means of escaping the problems of life that she needed to deal with and solve, but either couldn’t or wouldn’t.
There’s no question in this writer’s mind that Whitney Houston had a troubled heart. She could not find rest for her soul, because she was desperately searching for that rest in the wrong place.
Are we experiencing overwhelming problems in our life today similar to what Whitney Houston was experiencing? Rather than wishing we could fly away and escape life’s problems, we can always bring them to our Lord.
Jesus will take care of those problems (1 Peter 5:7), and we can find rest for our souls (Matthew 11:28-29).
He’ll lovingly provide us with “peace at the center” — a peace that passes all understanding (Philippians 4:6-7).