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shersh on 09 Jun 2016
I kissed watching The Bachelor goodbye. Yes, I have joined millions in watching many episodes over the seasons of the wildly popular show. Overall, 8.33 million viewers tune into The Bachelor or The Bachelorette, and the programs pull their highest rating share in the 18-49 year-old demographic. I laughed at the ridiculous antics of contestants […]
Tags: Culture of Distorted Sexuality, Culture of Objectification, Culture of Rape, Culture of Substance Abuse, Sexual Healing, Stanford Rape, The Bachelor & Bachelorette
Filed in 20 minutes of action,Addiction,aholyexperience.com,Alcoholism,Betrayal,Brock Turner,C.S. Lewis,Culture of Distorted Sexuality,Culture of Objectification,Culture of Rape,Culture of Substance Abuse,Dehumanizing Behiavor,Desire,Healing,Predators,Reality Television,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Sexual Abuse,Surrender,The Bachelor and The Bachelorette,Wendell Berry
shersh on 12 Apr 2016
I kicked a gas pump last week and shouted a word I hardly ever use. The gas pump gave me 1-2 gallons of gas and then shut down, and I had to cancel the transaction and start the process all over again. And then I took my car through the car wash, which trapped it […]
Tags: Beautiful worship, King David, Loss, Pain, Strange Women, Surrender, Toxic, Waste
Filed in Addiction,Alcoholism,Betrayal,Desire,Detox,Disappointment,Divorce,Dreams,Grace,Living Water,Loneliness,Marriage,Mental Illness,Passion,Powerlessness,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Resurrection,Scandal,Sexual Abuse,Sorrow,Surrender,The Humble King,Thirst,Waste
shersh on 31 Mar 2016
This is the next videocast in the Radically Redemptive Relationships series. We talk about betrayal, but the truth is that we can’t put words to it. We were made to never be betrayed, and so we don’t manage it well. We rage at God, we hurt others, and ourselves. Betrayal is the exact opposite of […]
Tags: Alcohol and Grace Abuse, Come out of Hiding, Erik Guzman, keylife.org, Steffany Gretzinger
Filed in Addiction,Alcoholism,Betrayal,Confession,Failure,Freedom,God Only Writes Good Stories,God's Mercy,Grace,Healing,Imposter,lifehurts.us,Love will have the final word,Masks,Radically Redemptive Relationships,Redemption,Relationship with Jesus,Resurrection
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
Filed in Addiction,Addiction Treatment,Alcoholism,Freedom,Grace,Healing,Home,Illusion of control,Imposter,Loneliness,Love will have the final word,Loving our neighbors,Mental Illness,Practice Resurrection,Prince of Peace,Relationship with Jesus,Resurrection,Salvation Story,schizaphrenia,Sorrow,Surrender,The Humble King,Thirst
shersh on 26 Jan 2016
Radically Redemptive Relationships? You’ve Got to Be Crazy! Into Me See – It Takes A Braveheart The day has finally come when my dear friend since college (dare I say, over thirty years ago!?) Holly Stratton (lifehurts.us) and I share our debut VIDEOCASTS: Radically Redemptive Relationships: Finding Common Ground For Love’s Sake. The videocasts were […]
Tags: Friendship, Hiding, Intimacy, Teresa of Avila
Filed in Addiction,Alcoholism,Bravehearts,Change,Confession,COURAGE TO CHANGE,Desire,Disappointment,Divorce,Donald Miller - Scary Close,Failure,Freedom,Giving to Others,God Only Writes Good Stories,God's Mercy,Grace,Holly Stratton,Illusion of control,Imposter,legalism,lifehurts.us,Loneliness,Love Story,Passion,Pride,Radically Redemptive Relationships,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Tattoos,Telling the Truth,The R cubed Challenge,Vulnerability
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
Filed in Addiction,Addiction Treatment,Alcoholism,All is Grace,Baby It's Cold Outside,Betrayal,Desire,Disappointment,Divorce,Failure,Freedom,God's Mercy,Grace,Gratitude,Healing,Illusion of control,iPhone,Isolation,Loneliness,Mumford & Sons,Passion,Radically Redemptive Relationships,Redemption,Relationship with Jesus,Resurrection,Salvation Story,Singleness,Sorrow,Surrender,The Humble King,Vulnerability
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
Filed in Addiction,Addiction Treatment,Alcoholism,COURAGE TO CHANGE,Dehumanizing Behiavor,Detox,Disappointment,Failure,Finding $36000,Freedom,Giving to Others,God's Mercy,Grace,Gratitude,Healing,Isolation,Living Water,Loneliness,Loving our neighbors,Mental Illness,Mother's Day,Powerlessness,Pride,Radically Redemptive Relationships,Redemption,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Salvation Story,Sorrow,Surrender,Telling the Truth,The Humble King,Thirst,Vulnerability
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
Filed in 2 Women Finding Common Ground for Love's Sake,Addiction,Addiction Treatment,Affairs,Alcoholism,Ashley Madison,Begin Again Believe Again,Bob Jones University,Bravehearts,C.S. Lewis,Change,Confession,COURAGE TO CHANGE,Desire,Disappointment,Divorce,Eat Disorders,God Only Writes Good Stories,God's Mercy,Grace,Healing,Holly Stratton,Home,Inappropriate Relationship,Is God a Dumb-Ass?,Isolation,Jim Coffield,Josh Duggar,Less Close Friends Than Ever,lifehurts.us,Lipstick for Thin Lips,Loneliness,Love Story,Mental Illness,Mother's Day,Passion,Radically Redemptive Relationships,Redemption,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Salvation Story,Scandal,Singleness,Social Media,Starvation,Stay Skinny or Stay Hungry?,Success,Surrender,Teach Our Daughters to Breathe Fire,The R cubed Challenge,The Slow Fade of Love,Vulnerability
shersh on 28 Aug 2015
In the wake of yet another scandal we are discovering that all the ways that the Internet allows us to connect are also baffling, cunning, and insidious ways to disconnect. A website that “guarantees” you an affair if you can pay the price, leaves most of shaking our heads at who would think of such […]
Tags: Addiction, Ashley Madison, Breathe Fire, Breathe Love, forgiveness, Grace, Imposters, Kale Salad, Mercy, Reconciliation, the Humble King, Venmo, Vulnerability
Filed in Addiction,Affairs,Alcoholism,Ashley Madison,C.S. Lewis,Dehumanizing Behiavor,Designing Women,Desire,Disappointment,Ezer,Failure,Fraud,Giving to Others,God's Mercy,Grace,Imposter,Inappropriate Relationship,Josh Duggar,Julia Sugarbaker,Kale Salad,Killing Desire,Living Water,Love Story,Perversions,Redemption,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Salvation Story,Scandal,Sexual Addiction,Singleness,Social Media,Suitable Helper,Surrender,Teach Our Daughters to Breathe Fire,The Humble King,Thirst,Venmo,Vulnerability
shersh on 27 Jul 2015
Alone. Several weeks ago the History Channel began to chronicle the fascinating and sometimes bone-chilling stories of, “Ten men who enter the Vancouver Island wilderness carrying only what they can fit in a small backpack. They are alone in harsh, unforgiving terrain with a single mission–stay alive as long as they can. These men […]
Tags: Addiction, Alcoholism. Busyness, Donald Miller - Scary Close, Grace, History Channel Alone, Isolation, Living Water, Loneliness, Masks, Perfectionism, Powerlessness, Predators, Reality Television, Redemption, Relationships, Singleness, Starvation, Surrender, Survivalists, The Last Addiction, Thirst
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