BRAVEHEARTS

If you missed CONVO #1 on SAVING CONVERSATION, you can listen by copying this link and clicking: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Asfc_1Nx41LwgYdffizom47EM7fPHQ or go to www.facebook.com/sharonhersh. Yes, I introduced myself as an almost 60 year-old woman (holy cow!) who is half Republican, half Democrat; part introvert and part extrovert; a recovering alcoholic; fierce lover of Jesus; and as someone who […]

Tags: Holy cow!, Holy ground, Love Listens, Love talks, Politics, Saving conversation, The Convos

I kissed watching The Bachelor goodbye. Yes, I have joined millions in watching many episodes over the seasons of the wildly popular show. Overall, 8.33 million viewers tune into The Bachelor or The Bachelorette, and the programs pull their highest rating share in the 18-49 year-old demographic. I laughed at the ridiculous antics of contestants […]

Tags: Culture of Distorted Sexuality, Culture of Objectification, Culture of Rape, Culture of Substance Abuse, Sexual Healing, Stanford Rape, The Bachelor & Bachelorette

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

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

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

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

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

  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

        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

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