i will always love you the moment capped a moving funeral service that began with these remarks. we re here today, hearts broken, but yet, with god s strength we celebrate the life of whitney houston. opening the service, joe carter, pastor of the new hope baptist church, houston s famous friends one after another gave stunningly poignant tributes like actor and filmmaker tyler perry. there was a grace that carried, a grace that carried her from heaven down through miss cissy houston. a grace that brought her up through singing. a grace that from what i understand she wasn t supposed to be able to speak let alone speak because of an incident that happened as a child. but there was a grace that kept on carrying her all the way through. the same grace led her all the way to the top of the charts, sold all of these albums and just done some amazing things, won all these awards. she s sang for presidents, and there was a grace that kept on carrying her. gospel singer
i will always love you the sound of houston s biggest hit i will always love you as pallbearers carried her casket out. the moment began with these remarks we re here today, hearts broken but yet with god s strength, we celebrate the life of whitney houston. [ applause ] opening the service, joe carter, pastor of the new hope baptist church, houston s famous friends one after another gave stunningly poignant tributes, like tyler perry. there was a grace that carried her. a grace that carried her from heaven down through cissy houston. a grace that brought her up through singing. from what i understand, she wasn t supposed to be able speak, let alone sing because of an incident that happened as a child. but there was a grace that kept on carrying her all the way through. this same grace led her all the way to the top of the charts. sold all of these albums and done some amazing things, won all these awards she s sang for presidents. there was a grace that kept on
from, the burden with fame, call it doubt, call it fear, i ve had mine, and i know the famous in the room have had theirs. i asked her to trust me and she said she would. a half hour later she went back in to do her screen test and the studio fell in love with her. the whitney i knew despite her success and fame thought am i good enough, am i pretty enough? will they like me? it was the burden that made her great and the part that caused her to stumble in the end. whitney, if you could hear me now, i would tell you, you weren t just good enough, you were great. you sang the whole damn song wou
unexplainable burden that comes with fame, call it doubt, call it fear. i ve had mine, and i know the famous in the room have had theirs. i asked her to trust me and she said she would. a half hour later she went back in to do her screen test and the studio fell in love with her. the whitney i knew, despite her success and worldwide fame still wondered am i good enough? am i pretty enough? will they like me? it was the burden that made her great, and the part that caused her to stumble in the end. whitney, if you could hear me now i would tell you you weren t just good enough, you were great. you sang the whole damn song without a band.
no clue how i ll miss you i ll miss your voice when you would call i ll miss your smile most of all just us two with nowhere to go and nothing to do i m going to miss you i take simple precautions, i think of you often since you left here life a bit harder, our love a lot smarter since you left here the days that i can t take it i know i will make it with jesus and memories it will help us and keep me since you left here oh, but i ll miss your wit, i ll miss your charm just wanted to hold you in my arms my heart is blue because you have no clue how i ll miss you and i ll miss her voice when she would call i ll miss her smile most of all just us two with nowhere to go and nothing to do i m going to miss you oh, i ll miss you, so just hold her lord, just hold her in your arms in your arms, rock her in your arms oh, i ll miss her voice when she would call i ll miss her smile most of all jus