Archive for the 'Love Story' Category
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
Filed in 2 Women Finding Common Ground for Love's Sake,Betrayal,Bravehearts,Caitlin Jenner,Disappointment,Dreams,God Only Writes Good Stories,lifehurts.us,Love Story,Marriage,Practice Resurrection,Radically Redemptive Relationships,Relationship with Jesus,the shadows,The Substance.,the Ultimate Man
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 14 Dec 2015
I really don’t know why I like the commercial of Lady Gaga singing, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” with Tony Bennett in Barnes & Noble, but I do. I can’t explain why I won’t go to church on Christmas Eve to watch the church children follow the donkey with the specially-picked child who gets […]
Tags: Ambiguity, Baby It's Cold Outside, Lady Gaga, Prince of Peace, The Giving Tree
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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 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
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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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shersh on 12 Jul 2015
The following stories are true. The scam is real, but names and inconsequential details have been changed to protect those involved. Okay, Cupid. My friend, Sara logged on to the dating website, Ok Cupid, with reluctance and the tiniest bit of hope. Almost immediately she was messaged by a handsome man, with a job, who […]
Tags: alcoholism, Catfishing, Come home, Divorce, False promise, Fhishing, Fraud, Imposter, It is Finished, Jesus, Nigerian romance scam, On-line dating, Prone to Wander, Scarlet Letter, Singleness, Stand at the Door and Knock
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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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