Television Host Demonstrates Faith, Forgiveness, After Parents' Murder

Teresa Neumann : Oct 30, 2009
Peter Elliott - Everyday Christian

"Everyone doesn't have the opportunity to have two beautiful parents… I thank God that I came from two people that loved each other...stayed together, married for 54 years, who nurtured a beautiful family. Man, I couldn't ask for anything more."

(Chicago, Ill.)—Recently, the parents of Garrard McClendon, a well-known TV personality in Chicago, were found killed in a forest just south of the city.

In an interview published in Everyday Christian, McClendon "showed a grace and depth of faith in the midst of the darkest time of his life."

"I'm trusting God right now," he said. "This is on the spiritual level for me. It's painful. It hurts. The vision of my parents being murdered is unbelievable. Having to go to the Cook County Examiner's office to identify my parents was the most surreal situation I've ever been in my life...I have forgiven the perpetrators...This is a Road to Damascus."

"My parents were my heroes," he added. "Everyone doesn't have the opportunity to have two beautiful parents… I thank God that I came from two people that loved each other...stayed together, married for 54 years, who nurtured a beautiful family. Man, I couldn't ask for anything more."