Archive for the 'Perfectionism' Category
shersh on 30 Dec 2012
We are almost there. In a little over twenty-four hours we get to start a new year. A new year. In the past, I have anticipated the beginning of a new year with resolve to . . . * lose weight — become a new me in a smaller size with new habits that include [...]
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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 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 17 Oct 2011
Nothing has gone right these past days. My Blackberry stopped working. (That is not a minor glitch for me — my Blackberry!!!) That is a dark day. And then the dashboard of my car flashed with all kinds of symbols that meant nothing to me — except that I knew that the simultaneous grinding sounds from the [...]
Tags: Andrew Peterson, Caitlin Crosby, Dancing in the Minefield, Flawz, Ghosts on the Earth, Gungor, Salvation Stories
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shersh on 08 Oct 2011
“His name was Samson, the long-haired strong man who took Nazarite vows, the last and most famous of the Old Testament judges, the warrior who slew the lion with his bare hands and a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass. But his storied life ended in prison, his hair shaved, his eyes gouged [...]
Tags: Brennan Manning, Failure, Salvation Stories, Samson, Success
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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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