By Michaela Gordoni
FRASIER’s Kelsey Grammer heard God’s voice when he followed an invitation to invite Christ into his life at one of Greg Laurie’s Harvest Crusade events.
“Greg Laurie invited me to come to what he calls the Harvest [Crusade]…It was Faith, my daughter Faith, who said let’s go down, you know, when he did the call to come down and declare, you know, ‘I’d like you in my life,’” the JESUS REVOLUTION actor said.
“I’ve called it my limping faith,” he continued. “I always had a limping faith… It was always there.”
He recalled hearing God’s voice when he went to Sunday school as a child, and there on that baseball field at the Harvest Crusade event, he asked God, “Where were you?” After a few minutes, he heard God say, “I was right there.”
Grammer’s life was gravely impacted by the murder of his younger sister, Karen. He’s spent the greater part of his life questioning the incident and healing from it.
At one time in his life, he “cursed” God for his sister’s death. Now, his advice for others dealing with similar pain is to turn “toward God, not away from him. Because it isn’t like God’s out to get you.
“And that was is what I didn’t understand,” he said of hearing God’s voice. “And then it happened a couple more times as I was writing a book [about Karen]… and the voice basically said, ‘Don’t you think it’s time for you to give it up? and I said, ‘No, I’ve been okay. I’ve carried it this long. I can still handle it. It’s mine.’ He said, “No, it’s mine.’”
Grammer said writing the book about his sister and hearing God’s voice has helped him find happiness in his life now, at age 71.
“For a long time, the grief was so dominant that I couldn’t access happiness,” Grammer, said. “The book helped me get to a new place with that.”
His trials have fortified his faith, which is why he has a daughter named Faith.
“I’ve had hiccups. I’ve had some tragic times,” he told USA Today. “I have wrestled with those and worked my way through them: sometimes rejecting faith, sometimes rejecting God even, in a period of being pretty angry about it, like, ‘Where were you?’”
“But I have come to terms with it and have found great peace in my faith and in Jesus,” he said. “It’s not cavalier – Jesus made a difference in my life. That’s not anything I’ll apologize for.”
It’s remarkable that Grammer would stay strong and close to God despite the hard life he’s had.
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