Archive for the 'Salvation Story' Category
shersh on 28 Feb 2016
“I . . um . . . I’m pretty sure . . . that I will never be loved.” Kyle told me those words about nine years ago when he began to see me after just being recently diagnosed with schizophrenia. It wasn’t the illness that Kyle blamed for being unworthy of love – it was […]
Tags: Brokenness, homelessness, Jesus had the final word, Love will have the final word, Mental Illness, Schizaphrenia, Wounds are Where Love Gets In
Filed in Addiction,Addiction Treatment,Alcoholism,Freedom,Grace,Healing,Home,Illusion of control,Imposter,Loneliness,Love will have the final word,Loving our neighbors,Mental Illness,Practice Resurrection,Prince of Peace,Relationship with Jesus,Resurrection,Salvation Story,schizaphrenia,Sorrow,Surrender,The Humble King,Thirst
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
Filed in Addiction,Addiction Treatment,Alcoholism,All is Grace,Baby It's Cold Outside,Betrayal,Desire,Disappointment,Divorce,Failure,Freedom,God's Mercy,Grace,Gratitude,Healing,Illusion of control,iPhone,Isolation,Loneliness,Mumford & Sons,Passion,Radically Redemptive Relationships,Redemption,Relationship with Jesus,Resurrection,Salvation Story,Singleness,Sorrow,Surrender,The Humble King,Vulnerability
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
Filed in Advent,All is Grace,Ambiguity,Baby It's Cold Outside,Barbie,Breathe,Christmas,God's Mercy,Grace,Gratitude,holidays,Lady Gaga,Love Story,Loving our neighbors,Planned Parenthood,Prince of Peace,Relationship with Jesus,Resurrection,Salvation Story,The Giving Tree,Vulnerability
shersh on 26 Oct 2015
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
Filed in Affairs,Ashley Madison,Betrayal,Confession,Dehumanizing Behiavor,Desire,Disappointment,Eiie Wiesel,Failure,God Only Writes Good Stories,God's Mercy,Grace,Gratitude,Holocaust,Inappropriate Relationship,Iran and Israel,Obama,Powerlessness,Radically Redemptive Relationships,Redemption,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Salvation Story,Scandal,Social Media,Surrender,Tattoos,Vulnerability
shersh on 03 Oct 2015
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
Filed in Addiction,Addiction Treatment,Alcoholism,COURAGE TO CHANGE,Dehumanizing Behiavor,Detox,Disappointment,Failure,Finding $36000,Freedom,Giving to Others,God's Mercy,Grace,Gratitude,Healing,Isolation,Living Water,Loneliness,Loving our neighbors,Mental Illness,Mother's Day,Powerlessness,Pride,Radically Redemptive Relationships,Redemption,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Salvation Story,Sorrow,Surrender,Telling the Truth,The Humble King,Thirst,Vulnerability
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
Filed in 2 Women Finding Common Ground for Love's Sake,Addiction,Addiction Treatment,Affairs,Alcoholism,Ashley Madison,Begin Again Believe Again,Bob Jones University,Bravehearts,C.S. Lewis,Change,Confession,COURAGE TO CHANGE,Desire,Disappointment,Divorce,Eat Disorders,God Only Writes Good Stories,God's Mercy,Grace,Healing,Holly Stratton,Home,Inappropriate Relationship,Is God a Dumb-Ass?,Isolation,Jim Coffield,Josh Duggar,Less Close Friends Than Ever,lifehurts.us,Lipstick for Thin Lips,Loneliness,Love Story,Mental Illness,Mother's Day,Passion,Radically Redemptive Relationships,Redemption,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Salvation Story,Scandal,Singleness,Social Media,Starvation,Stay Skinny or Stay Hungry?,Success,Surrender,Teach Our Daughters to Breathe Fire,The R cubed Challenge,The Slow Fade of Love,Vulnerability
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
Filed in Addiction,Affairs,Alcoholism,Ashley Madison,C.S. Lewis,Dehumanizing Behiavor,Designing Women,Desire,Disappointment,Ezer,Failure,Fraud,Giving to Others,God's Mercy,Grace,Imposter,Inappropriate Relationship,Josh Duggar,Julia Sugarbaker,Kale Salad,Killing Desire,Living Water,Love Story,Perversions,Redemption,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Salvation Story,Scandal,Sexual Addiction,Singleness,Social Media,Suitable Helper,Surrender,Teach Our Daughters to Breathe Fire,The Humble King,Thirst,Venmo,Vulnerability
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
Filed in Addiction,Alcoholism,All is Grace,Brennan Manning,Confession,Dehumanizing Behiavor,Failure,Freedom,God's Mercy,Grace,Healing,Home,legalism,Love Story,Perversions,Powerlessness,Redemption,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Righteous of Unrighteous Anger,Salvation Story,Say Something,Sexuality,Sigmund Freud,Sorrow,Supreme Court Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage,Surrender
shersh on 22 Jun 2015
The headlines crush us again with stories of inappropriate relationships that result in severe consequences — the loss of job, reputation, and trust. I’m afraid we read the headlines and fill in the story with images from terrible television shows like Mistresses or country western songs that tell stories of lost lovers or lost dogs or […]
Tags: Affairs, Confusion, Divorce, Forgetfulness, Inappropriate Relationships, Love, Naivete, Presumption, Tulian Tchividjian
Filed in Affairs,All is Grace,Breaking the Curse,Change,Confession,COURAGE TO CHANGE,Desire,Disappointment,Divorce,Failure,Freedom,God's Mercy,Grace,Imposter,Inappropriate Relationship,Loneliness,Love Story,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Salvation Story,Sorrow,Telling the Truth,TulianTchividjian
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
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