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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 28 Jun 2015
I scrolled through a lot of Blogs and Facebook posts reading about Friday’s Supreme Court ruling acknowledging same-sex marriage. I think everyone who posts something about this subject is brave (or crazy), because it has been “the issue” that has polarized our country. After about an hour I couldn’t read anymore. I was dizzy […]
Tags: Dehumanizing Behavior, Gossip, Kindness, Listening to Story, Righteous and Unrighteous Anger, Supreme Court Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage, the Kingdom of Love
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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 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 14 Sep 2011
Below is a story from my dear friend Ruth — who was practically perfect and completely miserable. I can identify with this Salvation Story, and I’m so grateful that God does not only save us from our sin. He saves us from ourselves. “For only crazy people would think they could complete by their own […]
Tags: Salvation Story
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shersh on 10 Apr 2011
BEFORE READING: Please know that my intention in writing the blog below was not to shame anyone. Quite honestly I wrote this blog immediately after watching the 20/20 program and it practically wrote itself — without any checks in my spirit. After receiving one email from a friend concerned that I was doing the same […]
Tags: Addiction, alcoholism, bob jones, Colorado, counselor, forgiveness, fundamentalists, Grace, legalism, Sharon Hersh, substance abuse, tina anderson, university
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