Theo Fleury

For the last day or so, i have seen the bits and pieces of interviews with Theoren Fleury, former National Hockey League player.

I have gone to tsn.ca/nhl and clicked on his extended interview, and sat for 9 minutes in silence and awe.

And I have wept.

Lives are so very precious. Not just one or two lives; all lives.

How the Father's heart must ache for those of us in life who have been saddled with things we never asked for and were never meant to have to carry around. Guilt, shame, self-hatred, confusion, pain.

He hit rock-bottom, with a gun in his mouth, before he learned to begin to see himself as worth something, and refused to go on allowing his past to negatively affect his present and his future. He stopped making excuses, he stopped being a victim, he forgave and he began to move on and rebuild his life.

It is a process, a day by day process,and I wish him well. My heart goes out to him, and to all others like him, and I thank Mr. Theoren Fleury for telling his story. Even though I have not been through what he has been through, I still plan on buying his book.