Archive for the 'Breaking the Curse' Category
shersh on 22 Jun 2015
The headlines crush us again with stories of inappropriate relationships that result in severe consequences — the loss of job, reputation, and trust. I’m afraid we read the headlines and fill in the story with images from terrible television shows like Mistresses or country western songs that tell stories of lost lovers or lost dogs or […]
Tags: Affairs, Confusion, Divorce, Forgetfulness, Inappropriate Relationships, Love, Naivete, Presumption, Tulian Tchividjian
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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 10 Jun 2012
I haven’t written for several weeks, because I have been involved in a new project — creating phone apps! As my son said, “Who would have thought you would be working in technology?!” The truth is, it has been a lot of fun and a great outlet for renewed creative juices. The mobile phone/tablet apps are […]
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shersh on 24 Mar 2012
Today is my daughter’s fourth birthday! I awakened to this text message from her: “Today I am grateful for 4 years of sobriety, that I am not defined by who I used to be but I am a stronger person because of it, for a huge God who loves me even when I don’t love […]
Tags: Alcohlolics Anonymous, alcoholism, Mumford & Sons, Recovery, Salvation Story
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shersh on 30 Oct 2011
On this Halloween weekend it does not surprise me that I am typing this 13th Salvation Story “hunt and peck”, tediously-and-agonizingly slow style. My ten-year-old Compaq laptop has been taken out by a terrorist attack. Earlier this week I was writing a significant email to friends who are facing insurmountable struggles in their lives – […]
Tags: football, Halloween, prayer, spiritual warfare, tebowing, Tim Tebow
Filed in Begin Again Believe Again,Breaking the Curse,Uncategorized
shersh on 24 Oct 2011
The most flawed relationship in my life is with my daughter. Kristin is twenty-five years old and we have yelled and screamed at each other and gone on fabulous shopping trips to Chicago or L.A. There were scary nights when she was in in high school and I had no idea where she was and […]
Tags: Eating Disorders, Kristin Golden, Perfectionism, Salvation Stories
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shersh on 02 Sep 2011
Below is one of my parables — a Scripture story that makes sense of God and me. Thank you for sending me your parables. I look forward to posting them in the upcoming Stories of Salvation posts. In fact my next post will be one of your parables — “There’s Something About Mary.” Here is […]
Tags: Salvation Stories
Filed in Alcoholism,Breaking the Curse,Change,Grace
shersh on 25 Aug 2011
Today is my 52nd birthday, and today I begin a series of posts — 52 Stories of Salvation. Years ago I found myself in a moment of truth that began one of my own salvation stories. For weeks I could not shake nagging questions about my story. I had always known my mother was adopted, but […]
Tags: 52nd Birthday, Salvation Stories
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