From Shame to Shine: Inspiring Others in Christ! (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Sheila Walsh’s happy childhood dissolved in an instant when her father suffered a devastating brain injury that led to violent outbursts, and ultimately, death by suicide. Sheila couldn’t understand why her dad hated her, but resolved to do better for her Heavenly Father. Hear why Sheila ended up in a psychiatric hospital at age 34, and how Jesus helped her see her truth worth as His child.
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| 0:00.0 | God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new |
| 0:05.6 | documentary from Focus on the Family in the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose |
| 0:11.1 | courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising starting September 5th and find out how |
| 0:17.4 | you can be a part of the change and become an agent of restoration. |
| 0:22.4 | Sign up at truthrising.com. |
| 0:24.8 | That's truthrising.com. |
| 0:31.1 | And I remember at 12 thinking I've got one more chance to get it right. |
| 0:36.1 | Whatever my earthly father saw in me that made him hate me so |
| 0:39.7 | much, my heavenly father is never going to see that I am going to be the perfect Christian if it |
| 0:45.3 | kills me. And it almost did. Wow, that's Sheila Walsh, and we'll hear more from her today on Focus on |
| 0:53.9 | the Family with Jim Daly. |
| 0:55.7 | Last time, John, we heard Sheila's rather dramatic testimony of her childhood in Scotland |
| 1:00.8 | and how her father suffered a brain aneurysm and became a very angry man who regularly lashed out at her. |
| 1:09.8 | Only her, no one else in the family. And as a young child, |
| 1:14.5 | Sheila wondered why she made her dad so angry and assumed that he saw something evil in her. |
| 1:20.7 | Imagine that. He ultimately took his own life and Sheila held on to that sense of shame as she |
| 1:27.3 | grew up. |
| 1:28.2 | If you miss part one of Sheila's presentation yesterday, please get in touch with us. |
| 1:34.0 | We can send you the entire message on CD or an audio download, or you can get the |
| 1:38.9 | focus on the family app and have access to all the broadcasts. |
| 1:43.0 | Yeah, we'll have the links in the show notes or give us a call, 800, the letter A and the word |
| 1:47.9 | family. |
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