BREAKING THE CHAINS OF GUILT AND SHAME (3 OF 4)
by Jeff Schreve
Scripture: Luke 15:11-24
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Breaking the Chains of Guilt and Shame (3 of 4)
Series: Sticking Points
Jeff Schreve
Luke 15:11-24
She was born in 1973 in California to a well-to-do family. Her father was a doctor, an oncologist. Her mother was an author. They named her Monica. Monica grew up going to school on the west coast. When she was a teenager, her parents got divorced, and it was a, a bitter divorce, and it really left scars in her heart. When she was a young girl in her 20's, she got an unpaid internship in Washington D.C. That turned into a paid position in Washington, D.C. She was an unknown person until 1998. And then, she became a household name. There's not a person in this room who hasn't heard the name Monica Lewinsky. She did some terrible things, and those terrible things were broadcast around the nation and around the world. A young girl in her 20's was not prepared for the ridicule, the scorn, the hatred that was directed at her. Recently, she gave an interview on television, and she recounted the guilt and the shame that she had to deal with. Watch the screens.
"The ground completely crumbled in that moment. I felt so much guilt, and I was terrified. There was a point for me somewhere in this sorted first several hours where I would be hysterically crying and then I would just shut down. And in the shutdown
period, I remember looking out the window and thinking that the only way to fix this was to kill myself, was to jump out the window. And I felt terrible. I was scared and I was mortified and afraid of what this was going to do to my family, and....."
Monica said that her mother would stay with her night after night after night because she was afraid that her daughter was going to kill herself because of the guilt and because of the shame. She said, "When I would shower, my mom made me leave the door open so that she could make sure she wasn't slashing her wrists or doing something like that." She said, "The shame stuck to me like ta ...
Series: Sticking Points
Jeff Schreve
Luke 15:11-24
She was born in 1973 in California to a well-to-do family. Her father was a doctor, an oncologist. Her mother was an author. They named her Monica. Monica grew up going to school on the west coast. When she was a teenager, her parents got divorced, and it was a, a bitter divorce, and it really left scars in her heart. When she was a young girl in her 20's, she got an unpaid internship in Washington D.C. That turned into a paid position in Washington, D.C. She was an unknown person until 1998. And then, she became a household name. There's not a person in this room who hasn't heard the name Monica Lewinsky. She did some terrible things, and those terrible things were broadcast around the nation and around the world. A young girl in her 20's was not prepared for the ridicule, the scorn, the hatred that was directed at her. Recently, she gave an interview on television, and she recounted the guilt and the shame that she had to deal with. Watch the screens.
"The ground completely crumbled in that moment. I felt so much guilt, and I was terrified. There was a point for me somewhere in this sorted first several hours where I would be hysterically crying and then I would just shut down. And in the shutdown
period, I remember looking out the window and thinking that the only way to fix this was to kill myself, was to jump out the window. And I felt terrible. I was scared and I was mortified and afraid of what this was going to do to my family, and....."
Monica said that her mother would stay with her night after night after night because she was afraid that her daughter was going to kill herself because of the guilt and because of the shame. She said, "When I would shower, my mom made me leave the door open so that she could make sure she wasn't slashing her wrists or doing something like that." She said, "The shame stuck to me like ta ...
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