American gospel minister, Kirk Franklin has just met his biological father who gave him up for adoption as a child.
Franklin wrote on Instagram that he received an anonymous call through which he found that the man he has spent his whole life hating and whom he had never met, has only 3-6 months to live.
According to the award-winning musician, he chose the path of forgiveness and decided to forgive his father as he would be disappointed if the man left the earth without being forgiven.
He wrote, “So…..
Two days ago, I received an anonymous call that my biological father, who I never knew, has 3-6 months to live. I’ve lived my entire life hating this man. He and my biological mother gave me up for adoption, and it left me never feeling good enough….to this very day. I took my hate for him and used it as fuel to be the best father I could be for my own. But what I did wrong, is I never took that fuel, and turn it into forgiveness….and that is wrong. Wrong for him, me, and the God I proclaim to represent. How can I preach what I don’t practice. So I flew to Houston yesterday to do that. It’s painful, it’s a process, but how disappointed I would be in myself for this man to leave this earth without being forgiven. He deserves to receive what God gives me everyday. Pray for him, and for me. God this is hard…I weep as I write.”
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