Posted by
April Lorier on Saturday, June 27, 2009 4:42:20 PM
'He Knew' is the title of Lisa Marie's June 26th blog on MySpace.
It is a heart wrenching account of a conversation she had with Michael
Jackson when they were married, and how he told her he knew he was
going to die just like her father had died. He would not be dissuaded,
though she tried repeatedly.
Lisa Marie Presley is suffering today through a kind of DejaVu.
On August 16, 1977 she watched as her father was taken from behind the
gates and put into an ambulance. He was gone. On June 25, 2005 she
watched her ex-husband being taken from behind the gates and put into
an ambulance. He was gone.
14
years later, I am sitting here watching on the news an ambulance leaves
the driveway of his home, the big gates, the crowds outside the gates,
the coverage, the crowds outside the hospital, the Cause of death and
what may have led up to it and the memory of this conversation hit me,
as did the unstoppable tears.
I
feel sympathy for Lisa Marie. I used to watch her father sitting in the
balcony of The First Assembly of God Church in Memphis, Tennessee
during the monthly "All Night Singing" Festivals. He was profoundly
lonely. He loved his Lord, loved singing about Him, and loved hearing
the quartets onstage as they sang about Him. But he was lonely.
Michael Jackson was profoundly lonely. Who could he trust?
Thursday,
I sat watching the news of Michael Jackson's death, and I was impressed
with the parallels between Michael and Elvis' lives. Each had been
catapulted to the top, and the closer they got to the top, the lonelier
they became. Fame does not make a human being 'happy'. I asked myself,
'But what was the point of either life? They changed music?' And I
realized how little that had to do with character, life, or the
after-life.
Today Lisa Marie is feeling like she should have
been able to 'save' Michael. Human beings cannot 'save' other human
beings. There is only One who can save a human being from himself. So,
I say to you, Lisa Marie, You were
not born to save Michael Jackson from his self-fulfilling prophecy. He
tried, in several ways, to be like your father. And if it meant he had
to die as your father did, then so be it. It was not your doing.
(c) 2009 April Lorier
Author of God's Battered Child: Journey From Abuse to Leader
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