God's a Big Boy

This is what God does... it's the difference between life w/ God and life w/out God...

Theo Fleury, a Stanley Cup champion, an Olympic gold medalist, is in the middle of a three-decades-long fight to take responsibility for his recovery and rehabilitation from child molestation.

"It is the shame and the guilt part that keeps you in that space. I was a people pleaser, always trying to please everybody, and I am not any more. The fact is, this is happening to a lot of kids and too many people are standing around doing nothing.”

On Sept. 18, 2005, the cocaine and vodka lost their ability to soothe Fleury’s pain. He cracked. He crumbled.  "I finally had a conversation with the Big Guy Upstairs and I called Him every name in the book," Fleury said. "I told Him, 'I know the whole You-only-give-me-as-much-as-I-can-handle thing. Well, I'm full. I need you to take a little.' At the end of the conversation, I prayed for Him to take away the obsession.

"When I woke up, I was walking and there was a mirror in front of me. From the time it happened [the abuse] until that second, I couldn't look people in the eye. People who have been abused will know what I am talking about. Yet I looked at that person in the mirror [myself] for a long time and I said 'it's gone.' "

Almost 35 years of emotional turmoil gone.

Almost 35 years of lying done.

Almost 35 years of hating himself evaporated.

Have a good and godly day.