MERCY. Sheree J. Wilson.
As a teen, actress Sheree J. Wilson experiences an overcoming presence and realizes God is real. She also shares her answered prayer for Mercy in the recent passing of her father.
Sheree Julienne Wilson is an actress, producer, businesswoman, and model. She is best known for her roles as April Stevens Ewing on the American primetime television series Dallas and as Alex Cahill-Walker on the television series Walker, Texas Ranger.
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I'm definitely a believer in Miracles.
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And the Divine eye, I have had the great pleasure of having
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such a healthy and wonderful life.
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But there are times where I've needed, you know, some guidance
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and I've really asked for signs and help and I've gotten it
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every time. How would you say your faith?
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Journey began for you. Well, my mother and father are
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very big in. My mother.
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Has she sang in the choir for church from the day?
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I mean I was do, do a room with my sister and I are year and
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three days apart but for as long as I can remember, going to
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church mom, always sang in the choir.
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She's the one that got me into church plays, which is in turn
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how I found my love of acting. Being at a very young age when
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Parts did you have. Well, you know, whether it was
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in Little East stories or biblical stories, just the
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children around, I was never Mary Magdalene or anything like
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that, but no, we were just, we were kids.
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We were the, I was a kid in the, as the children were in the, in
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the Christmas program and the play.
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And so yes, my mom and my dad, we went to church every Sunday.
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I had little white gloves. I always remembered I got to
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wear my fancy little white gloves, and my patent leather
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shoes and I thought, that's when people used to dress up for
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church was. I mean, so beautiful Irene.
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I love those days. They don't anymore.
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I know it's just tragic. Not even at Easter.
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I still dressed for church. I do, is there a time for you.
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And your faith went beyond the routine of going to church.
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Where at some point you are like, oh my goodness, this this
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is actually real like God is actually real and a part of my
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life, you know, it was for me, there was, we went through, I
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guess in Catholicism is we catechism going to do this when
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you're 13 and There Was, You Know, studies that we went
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through, in order to get confirmed and I remember really
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being in, in the church, it was in Boulder Colorado.
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At 13, you're not really that interested in learning
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everything about the Bible, and all the stories and all the
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things and everything to get your confirmation.
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I went in to church and I remember just feeling like is
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this real, all this that I'm learning, you know, this is a
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and I'm telling you, something, came washing over me, I got
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chill bumps. I started crying, like spouting
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tears. Just naughty like, whale
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spouting tears. Not like just tearing down your
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face. I didn't know what was happening
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to me. Me. and then with all the chill
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bumps and every hair on my arms, and I just had that moment.
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That was my moment as a teenager that I went, okay, you are real
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and you are here for me, and you are listening and from there on
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out it was just, it's just my truth.
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Can you think of a time in crisis or other that you offered
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a prayer and you got a response in a way that couldn't have been
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coincidence. That every time you look back,
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And you know, that this was really a divine intervention.
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Well, You know, it's my dad is a perfect example.
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Recently, you know, covid hit and nobody went to the doctors
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for two years and it was his birthday and I was flying in for
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his birthday. And the day before he fell, and
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he two days before he fell and he tried to just handle it. with
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Advil and this and that, but he, he was terrified of going to the
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hospital because he didn't want to get sick and He felt so
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badly. And my dad was Boy Hank.
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He's rough and tough. And he was just, he is a he's a
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real man's man for him to say to my brother.
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And my sister you have to take me to the emergency room.
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This is beyond what I can bear at the house and they got there
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and they started doing x-rays and all this.
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He had broken his spine in five, different places from the fault.
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Just see on his bottom and it's fine was crumbling and they're
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like, how did you even walk in here?
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And lo and behold I flew in then the next day and they wouldn't
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let me in to see him so you have to go and knock on the window he
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was on the first floor. So we got to I got to go knock
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on the window. Tell him to pick up the phone, I
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could call him and talk to him on the city you know on the
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phone and up until that he was driving.
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He was just he was doing everything you know he was
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having his 80th birthday and so he To mean, he was looking all
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around and he was like, is your mom there, too?
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And I said, no, but I'll go get her.
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I promise. I'll go get her right now.
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Dad. And so zip, Tom got my mom.
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Brought him back. That night.
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I literally prayed because I could see that I said, if this
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is not fixable, it doesn't seem like it is Just let this be
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swift. Let this you know, don't make
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him suffer and I really prayed for my Dad's passing and he is
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PSA was off the charts, he was in the thousands.
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They said he got the most aggressive pancreatic cancer
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while during covid and it spread into his bones and that's why
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his bones were so brittle. And literally from diagnosis on
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Monday, he passed on Saturday, but we got him home, we got him,
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he had his whole family surrounding him.
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It was absolutely beautiful. He was telling jokes he was
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telling jokes to the nurse and he just, everybody took shifts
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and he He made it all through the night.
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Barely slept was watching comedies that morning he said I
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feeling a lot more pain and he wanted some pain medicine and he
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just started his chest started to get laborers and he took one
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big gurgly breath and was gone, my mother was there kissing him
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on the forehead. His head, his children, his
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grandchildren and to me that is pure Mercy from God.