The Bodyguard used to be one of my favourite films, not least because of the image of loving self-sacrifice it portrayed. As far as I remember it, Whitney Houston was the beautiful superstar whom former secret service agent Kevin Costner was hired to protect. After a stormy working and romantic relationship between them, the climax of the film comes at the Academy Awards when Costner takes the assassin's bullet and saves Houston's life. It of course is the film which rocketed Whitney Houston to stardom and made Dolly Parton's song, "I will always love you", a hit for her.Another of her later theme songs was "I look to you":
As
I lay me down
Heaven
hear me now
I’m
lost without a cause
After
giving it my all
Winter’s
storm has come
And
darkened my sun
After
all that I’ve been through
Who
on earth can I turn to?
I
look to you
I
look to you
After
all my strength is gone
In
you I can be strong
I
look to you
I
look to you
And
when melodies are gone
In
you I hear a song
I
look to you
About
to lose my breath
There’s
no more fighting left
Sinking
to rise no more
Searching
for that open door
And
every road I’ve taken
Led
to my regret
And
I don’t know if I’m going to make it
Nothing
to do but lift my head
I
look to you
I
look to you
And
when my strength is gone
In
you I can be strong
I
look to you
I
look to you
And
when melodies are gone
In
you I hear a song
I
look to you
My
levees are broken, my walls have come
Crumbling
down on me
The
rain is falling, defeat is calling
I
need you to set me free
Take
me far away from the battle
I
need you, shine on me
I
look to you
I
look to you
After
all my strength is gone
In
you I can be strong
I
look to you
I
look to you
And
when melodies are gone
In
you I hear a song
I
look to you
I
look to you
I
look to you
As is clear, she wasn't that strong even three years ago. And yet that song, with its repeated "I look to you", remains a remarkable expression of faith. Sometimes we have none of our resources left and all we can do is "look to you", or as Charles Wesley put it in his children's hymn, "Lamb of God, I look to thee." Although the circumstances of Whitney Houston's death might make some doubt her faith at the end, I suspect it's more an indication of the havoc that drink and drugs had wrought with her mind than her spiritual state. I am sure that God to whom she was looking never lost sight of her and never stopped loving her. I suspect she's now hearing the song she sang about: "In you I hear a song."
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