Forgiving Yourself
David Ireland
John 8:1-11
1.0 Life is Messy! (John 8:1-11)
1.1 The topic of forgiveness is complicated.
A) Learning to forgive others is challenging; but I've found that learning to forgive yourself is even more difficult.
Actor Kelsey Grammer has been among the most likeable and recognizable figures in America since his phenomenal two decades playing the endearingly know-all shrink Dr. Frasier Crane on Cheers and Frasier. Yet, at the height of Kelsey Grammer's success, alcohol and cocaine addiction took him notoriously to the edge of self-destruction. In an April, 2015 Vanity Fair article, Grammer said, ''That was the time when I could not forgive myself for my sister's death.
There are unimaginable family tragedies in this man's life, which has been both blessed and cursed. When he was 13 years old, his estranged father was murdered-shot by a psychopath. His two half-brothers died in a scuba-diving accident. The sister he was referring to was 18-year-old Karen, who was abducted, raped, and murdered in Colorado by spree killer Freddie Glenn in 1975. Kelsey identified his sister's body and then informed his stricken mother.
More than 30 years later, when the killer was up for parole in 2009, Mr. Grammer described him as a monster and successfully opposed his release. ''I miss her in my bones,'' he wrote to the parole board. ''I was her big brother. I was supposed to protect her-I could not.... It very nearly destroyed me.'' When asked, ''How could you have protected her?'' ''You were only 20. You weren't even living in Colorado.'' He said, ''It's hard to explain. It's not rational. But it happens anyway. I know a lot of people who've lost their siblings and blame themselves.'' When he was able to let his guilt go after many years, he began to recover, though the hurt remains.'' Source:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/04/kelsey-grammer-sister-death-finding-neverland; http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/kel ...
David Ireland
John 8:1-11
1.0 Life is Messy! (John 8:1-11)
1.1 The topic of forgiveness is complicated.
A) Learning to forgive others is challenging; but I've found that learning to forgive yourself is even more difficult.
Actor Kelsey Grammer has been among the most likeable and recognizable figures in America since his phenomenal two decades playing the endearingly know-all shrink Dr. Frasier Crane on Cheers and Frasier. Yet, at the height of Kelsey Grammer's success, alcohol and cocaine addiction took him notoriously to the edge of self-destruction. In an April, 2015 Vanity Fair article, Grammer said, ''That was the time when I could not forgive myself for my sister's death.
There are unimaginable family tragedies in this man's life, which has been both blessed and cursed. When he was 13 years old, his estranged father was murdered-shot by a psychopath. His two half-brothers died in a scuba-diving accident. The sister he was referring to was 18-year-old Karen, who was abducted, raped, and murdered in Colorado by spree killer Freddie Glenn in 1975. Kelsey identified his sister's body and then informed his stricken mother.
More than 30 years later, when the killer was up for parole in 2009, Mr. Grammer described him as a monster and successfully opposed his release. ''I miss her in my bones,'' he wrote to the parole board. ''I was her big brother. I was supposed to protect her-I could not.... It very nearly destroyed me.'' When asked, ''How could you have protected her?'' ''You were only 20. You weren't even living in Colorado.'' He said, ''It's hard to explain. It's not rational. But it happens anyway. I know a lot of people who've lost their siblings and blame themselves.'' When he was able to let his guilt go after many years, he began to recover, though the hurt remains.'' Source:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/04/kelsey-grammer-sister-death-finding-neverland; http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/kel ...
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