… adopted and they don’t know their biological [parents]. It’s almost like a sore that never heals. You’re always living with, ‘Why wasn’t I good enough for you?’ I would see my real mother every now and then. She would lie and say she was coming to get me and take me to the fair, take me to the carnival.”
But Franklin added that it is the dumbest, most dangerous thing in the world to consider. “The same people that we laugh at — and talk about when they fall — are the same people sometimes that someone could’ve helped before they fell… and took others along with them,” he said.
He confessed that he is Clark Kent. He used to talk a lot on the phone with his female friends and meet them for lunch, and go to parties at award shows and obsess over his album charts.
“The things I mentioned above on their own are not sinful, but they are things in my life that I recognized I am not strong enough to do in my own power. I recognize my areas of weakness and acknowledge them,” he explained.
Since he acknowledged his flaws and limitations, Franklin said that it opened up the door for the real Superman to save him: God.
“We can do nothing on our own. You are a weak parent, a needy CEO, a powerless father. But if we remember this daily, the power of the greatest hero of our times promises to come and save the day,” he assured.
Kirk Franklin: “You Never Know What Someone Is Going Through” was originally published on blackdoctor.org
