Archive for the 'Disappointment' Category
shersh on 24 Apr 2020
It started with a runny nose. Allergies? Within twenty-four hours I was glued to my bed with a centrifugal force. Aches, chills, and fever paralyzed me. I started coughing . . . and then I knew. The coronavirus was calling. I was fortunate. I recovered at home, and by the time I could smell and […]
Tags: belonging, belonging book, Blameshifting, coronavirus, Covid19, hold on, kiss the monster on the lips, laughter, let go, more than Normal, the Way back, we belong to each other
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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
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shersh on 07 Apr 2016
The next videocast is about one of the most confusing, painful realities that I face and hear about from others. Singleness. It taunts you in a house full of people. It greets you at the end of a day, after you’ve done everything you’re supposed to do. It walks with you through the aisles of […]
Tags: Loneliness, our terrible beautiful ache, Relationships, Singleness, the shadows, the substance
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shersh on 22 Mar 2016
Today we show the videocast you’ve all been waiting for. Holly shares that she is married to the best man (and I know him and he seems pretty great), but that still isn’t good enough. When I was in middle school I wrote an essay called, “Mr. Right.” I described my dream man as a […]
Tags: Caitlin Jenner, Easter men and women, Marriage, Relationships, the Ultimate Man
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shersh on 08 Mar 2016
Today is our fifth videocast in our series about Radically Redemptive Relationships. There is probably no other area in life where we experience more pain, hope, heartache, and desire . . . and I think God intended it to be that way. My prayer is that we will not be afraid to look a little […]
Tags: fierce battles, letting go, letting God, Parenthood, Redemption
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shersh on 02 Feb 2016
The next videocast in the Radically Redemptive Relationships: 2 Woman Find Common Ground for the Sake of Love is about Scandalous Relationships. You can watch it at https://youtu.be/ui72Q07ECMY. We all read the headlines: “8 Church Scandals That May Have Challenged Your Faith;” “Today it’s Tulian: Will the Scandals Never End;” “Scandal Rocks biggest Christian Network” […]
Tags: Adultery, Affairs, Ashley Madison, forgiveness, Grace, Inappropriate Relationships, Scandals in the Church, the scandal of Grace, Tulian Tcihividjian
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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
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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 26 Oct 2015
Everyone is talking about it. Betrayal. Whether it’s a pastor whose name was discovered in the Ashley Madison hack or President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran – that some say is an unforgivable betrayal of Israel – betrayal makes us run for cover in fear that we might be the next to be betrayed or […]
Tags: Ashley Madison, Ben Affleck, Betrayal, Blake Shelton, Divorce, Divorce Decree, Elie Wiesel, Iran, Israel, Jennifer Garner, Miranda Lambert, Tattoos, the Holocaust, the signature of Jesus
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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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