WHEN A MAN abdicates his calling as a father, the world suffers the effects…
Julian Lennon, son of the late Beatles pop idol John Lennon, is a classic example. In his early twenties, Julian made his musical debut with a best-selling album. Then, to everyone’s shock, he suddenly stopped recording altogether. Seven years later, when he finally released a second album, he talked with a reporter about struggling to find his calling.
Julian’s mother and father had divorced when he was five, and after that he saw his father, John, perhaps a dozen times. “He walked out the bloody door and was never around,” Julian snapped. “I’d admire him on TV–listen to his words and opinions. But for someone who was praised for peace and love and and wasn’t able to keep that at home, that’s hypocrisy.”
As the reporter notes, “Julian became a self-taught musician. His father never game him a music lesson.” In the son’s words, “We sat down once and maybe he played five chords–that was that… The only thing he ever taught me was how not to be a father.”
His hatred for his father blinded Julian Lennon to his own calling, and the world suffered the lost of his talent for seven years. Gordon Dalby, “THE PAST – Healing the Wounds,” The Transformation of a Man’s Heart, 59-60
KneEmail: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22.16
Bible reading for 05.31.11: John 12.1-26; 2 Chronicles 13, 14
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