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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 21 Feb 2015
It all began with Fifty Shades of Grey. I should explain. As many of you have kindly noted and inquired about, I haven’t written a blog for a long time. Quite honestly, I didn’t have anything to say. My own health struggles left me barely able to work and crawl home to sleep. The heartache of […]
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shersh on 30 Dec 2012
We are almost there. In a little over twenty-four hours we get to start a new year. A new year. In the past, I have anticipated the beginning of a new year with resolve to . . . * lose weight — become a new me in a smaller size with new habits that include […]
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shersh on 09 Dec 2012
Wow! It has been a long time since I’ve written — not because there have been no salvation stories, but perhaps because there have been so many of them. Salvation Stories beginning, unfolding, confusing, challenging, terrifying, encouraging, emerging, disentangling, releasing, unravelling, confounding, baffling, arousing, exacting, imposing, heartbreaking, and continuing . . . . If I used […]
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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 13 May 2012
My Mother’s Day plans for this year were no different than they have been in the past two years. I planned to stay home, not get out of my pajamas, and watch re-runs of Law & Order all day — all plans indicating that this Hallmark Holiday would not look like any of those Hallmark cards […]
Tags: Mother's Day, Redemption, Salvation Story, Thanksgiving
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shersh on 16 Apr 2012
Last night, as I was sleeping I dreamt — marvelous error! — that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures. Robert Antonio Machado “How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth.” […]
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shersh on 19 Feb 2012
The second word that God formed in my heart to meditate on while I was in Asia was “individuality.” I wondered about this word until I met all the amazingly unique people — just on the small team that I was privileged to travel with. And then I had the chance to wander the […]
Tags: Asia Adventure; Salvation Story; Loneliness; Redemption
Filed in Begin Again Believe Again,Desire,Disappointment,Dreams,Loneliness,Salvation Story
shersh on 12 Feb 2012
I haven’t written for a while because the trip to Asia took a lot out of me! But the stories I have to tell! Before I left I prayed for God to put some words on my heart, and the first word that came quickly to mind was flexibility. I already knew that long flights […]
Tags: Asia Adventure, Broken Marriage, Busted Jeart, Flexibility
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