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shersh on 09 Jun 2016
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
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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
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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 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 24 Sep 2011
When my children were younger (Graham age 6, and Kristin age 7), I was stressed out. I was commuting to grad school, overwhelmed by academia, reading journals I didn’t understand, writing papers with formats that seemed tedious and unnecessary while still trying to drive carpool, do laundry, cook dinner, and help my kids with their homework. By […]
Tags: Salvation Stories; Dan Allender; Wounded Heart Conferen
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