In a video posted in YouTube recently, 55-year-old actor/comedian Jim Carrey opened up his speech by thanking the people inside the room saying that "it is filled with God"
"Suffering leads to Salvation"
In the past few years, the actor has been facing some life challenges following the death of his girlfriend, Cathriona White, who was found dead in her Los Angeles home in September 2015 in what coroners later ruled was a suicide from an overdose of painkillers, including Ambien, Propranolol and Percocet.
Aside from the fact that he is in a rather, tough time in his life, the 5-minute video started with all smiles and pure inspirational words.
Jim Carrey delivers a five-minute speech about forgiveness and faith, which he sees as key for ex-convicts to reintegrate into society. The missive, which was actually recorded in June 9, 2017 on behalf of Homeboy Industries, has now gone viral, thereby scoring over 630,618 views for the cause.
According to the charity's website, Homeboy Industries successfully helps men and women re-enter the workforce with job training and various services, including anger management and tattoo removal.
Carrey recently told 60 Minutes, "I'm a Buddhist, I'm a Muslim, I'm a Christian." While he didn't want to tie himself to any particular religion at the time, the religious right has embraced him for this speech, which reads in part as follows:
"You are heroes to me, and I admire you. When you stepped through these doors, you decided to be a part of this family. You made a decision to transcend and to leave darkness behind, and it takes a champion to make that decision ... Ultimately, I believe that suffering leads to salvation. In fact, it's the only way. We have to somehow accept, not deny, but feel our suffering and feel our losses. And then we make one of two decisions: We either decide to go through the gate of resentment, which leads to vengeance, which leads to self-harm, which leads to harm to others. Or we go through the gate of forgiveness, which leads to grace."
