Chris Williams and Cameron White

The Gift of Forgiveness

Headspace Studios & Cadence13

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.5 • 528 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Chris Williams was driving his family home from the ice cream shop one winter evening, when a drunk driver hit his car, totaling it, and killing his family. Chris sat among the wreckage, waiting for help to arrive and in that very moment, forgave the other driver. You can get a copy of Katherine's book, The Gift of Forgiveness, wherever books are sold. Photo by Johanna Brinckman This episode of The Gift of Forgiveness is sponsored by: Green Chef - Visit GreenChef.com/Forgive80 to get $80 off at checkout. Purple Mattress - Visit Purple.com/Forgive and use promo code "Forgive" for $150 off any mattress worth $1500 or more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Now, are all the traitors present?
0:02.5	Let's get started, shall we?
0:04.5	From rags to riches.
0:05.8	I'm so sick of this.
0:07.0	Working like a dog and being treated worse.
0:09.1	Yorkshire to New York.
0:10.7	Poor climbers, you and me.
0:12.4	A life dedicated to revenge.
0:14.4	Let's make this an occasion to remember.
0:16.5	A woman of substance on Channel 4.
0:19.2	Stream now.
0:34.9	At Space Studio. A Woman of Substance on Channel 4, stream now. On a cold night in early February 2007, Chris Williams and his family were out driving.
0:41.6	Chris was with his wife, Michelle, who was pregnant with their fifth child.
0:45.6	Their daughter, Anna, and son Sam and Ben, were in the back seat.
0:49.8	Their oldest son was out with some friends, but Chris and Michelle were taking the younger ones out for a treat.
0:55.7	The family was on their way home from the ice cream parlor.
0:59.0	We were journeying on a stretch of road in Salt Lake City, Utah that goes underneath a freeway.
1:06.1	And so as we started to kind of go over the crown of the first section of the road and descend into the
1:12.7	underpass area, I saw a pair of headlights coming at me at freeway speeds. It's a 30-mile-an-hour
1:18.4	zone, and the car was going exceptionally fast, so fast that I couldn't mentally process what to do. And we were T-bones.
1:30.5	The family sedan had been hit by a Jeep. The impact was immediate and devastating.
1:36.5	In that crash, my wife, who was in the passenger seat, she was killed instantly. I saw her
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