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shersh on 28 Feb 2016
“I . . um . . . I’m pretty sure . . . that I will never be loved.” Kyle told me those words about nine years ago when he began to see me after just being recently diagnosed with schizophrenia. It wasn’t the illness that Kyle blamed for being unworthy of love – it was […]
Tags: Brokenness, homelessness, Jesus had the final word, Love will have the final word, Mental Illness, Schizaphrenia, Wounds are Where Love Gets In
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shersh on 16 Jan 2016
It was 25 degrees outside. Windchill of 5. The sun was just rising and the last thing I wanted to do was to put on my layers of running clothes, lace up my rarely-used, but guaranteed to make you want to exercise Hoka’s. But I did. I was resolute. When the wind blasted my face, […]
Tags: Cold weather, Exercise, Fight song, Resolutions
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shersh on 03 Oct 2015
I didn’t want to go. I didn’t have time to go. But I remembered what it was like to be confined, unable to even get your own Chapstick. (And in the dry heat of Colorado that can be traumatic.) In fact, as I drove on this reluctant errand, I recalled when my parents discovered […]
Tags: alcoholism, Alcoholism Treatment, Detox, Finding $36000, forgiveness, Grand Rescuer, Lord of Shame, Lover of Sinners, Mentally Ill, Poor, Security, Wanting You
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shersh on 27 Sep 2015
We met under a street light and started talking about everything . . . the war between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland, the Pope, the South (in the 1970’s), boys (in the 1970’s), Jesus, and the strange soup that they served in the Dining Common that married the unlikely flavors of […]
Tags: Ashley Madison, Dan Allender, Elizabeth Gilbert & Zuckerberg, Family are Friends Too, Friendships, I Have a Friend Who Know My Name, Josh Duggar, Life-giving Words of Friends, Love Will Win, Radically Redemptive Relationships, Richer than Oprah, Slow Fade of Love, Stranger Friends, the Joy set before Him, The R-cubed Challenge
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shersh on 15 Jun 2015
A stately Norwegian man with white hair and sparkling blue eyes stood before a bunch of beat-up, bedraggled, brave women. He was giving us some final words before we left the place-of-no-other-choice to join a world filled with too many choices. We were at Haselden – a treatment center hidden in the tall Minnesota […]
Tags: Addiction, Grace, Haselden, Jesus, Reality Television, Relationship with Jesus, Rescue, Surrender, Taylor Swift, Telling Stories
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shersh on 29 Sep 2012
OCTOBER 1, 2012 begins the testing period for the Mobile Phone Apps I’ve been working on to bring Therapy to the IPhone; to bring what is not seen (true reality – that require faith to see there’s more than meets the eye; an opportunity to look at incredibly private and personal issues like body image […]
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shersh on 18 Aug 2012
I have a new friend — a new partner in the way Richard Rohr describes heaven-made partners: “Suffering people can love and trust a suffering God, Only a suffering God can save suffering people, those who have passed across this chasm can and will save one another.” Terry called me recently to tell me he’d […]
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shersh on 08 Aug 2012
It’s been almost three months since I last posted a Salvation Story. Time does truly fly sometimes, doesn’t it? There isn’t a tragic or wonderful reason I haven’t written. I’ve been busy. My clients have been more burdened, more needy, more desperate . . . and I’ve been more privileged than usual to be a […]
Tags: Addiction, Breathe, Busyness, Grace, Jesus, The Olympics, vacation
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