Archive for the 'Passion' Category
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
Filed in Addiction,Alcoholism,Betrayal,Desire,Detox,Disappointment,Divorce,Dreams,Grace,Living Water,Loneliness,Marriage,Mental Illness,Passion,Powerlessness,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Resurrection,Scandal,Sexual Abuse,Sorrow,Surrender,The Humble King,Thirst,Waste
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
Filed in Addiction,Alcoholism,Bravehearts,Change,Confession,COURAGE TO CHANGE,Desire,Disappointment,Divorce,Donald Miller - Scary Close,Failure,Freedom,Giving to Others,God Only Writes Good Stories,God's Mercy,Grace,Holly Stratton,Illusion of control,Imposter,legalism,lifehurts.us,Loneliness,Love Story,Passion,Pride,Radically Redemptive Relationships,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Tattoos,Telling the Truth,The R cubed Challenge,Vulnerability
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 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 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 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
Filed in Addiction,Addiction Treatment,Alcoholism,All is Grace,Begin Again Believe Again,Breaking the Curse,Breathe,Change,Confession,Desire,Disappointment,Failure,Freedom,God's Mercy,Grace,Gratitude,Haselden,Mumford & Sons,Passion,Powerlessness,Reality Television,Redemption,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Salvation Story,Surrender,Taylor Swift,Telling the Truth
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 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 […]
Filed in Addiction,Advent,Alcoholism,Begin Again Believe Again,Breathe,Busyness,COURAGE TO CHANGE,Desire,Disappointment,Dreams,Economy,Failure,Giving to Others,God's Mercy,Grace,Gratitude,Loneliness,Love Story,Newness,Passion,Powerlessness,Redemption,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Salvation Story,Sexual Abuse,Surrender,Telling the Truth,Terry Rush,Uncategorized
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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