Get Right
Gospel artist Kirk Franklin puts his setbacks and faults on full blast in The Blueprint: A Plan for Living Above Life’s Storms. In his introduction, the devoted husband and father of four tells how he turned life’s negatives (drugs, an absentee father, teenage parenthood and poverty) into blessings:
“I am very passionate about being honest, straight up and transparent about my struggles as a black man, my lack of education, my frustrations with the church that I am so proudly part of, and my failings first as a man, a boyfriend and then as a husband and a family man. Although I don’t have a Ph.D., I’m going to share with you every lesson I’ve learned from a life filled with hard knocks. The street corner was my classroom. The hood was my Harvard. And 14 years of marriage, four kids, a blended family and a ministry that has allowed me to travel the world have become my laboratory for life. What I have to offer isn’t perfection; it’s experience.”
