Archive for the 'Surrender' Category
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
Filed in 20 minutes of action,Addiction,aholyexperience.com,Alcoholism,Betrayal,Brock Turner,C.S. Lewis,Culture of Distorted Sexuality,Culture of Objectification,Culture of Rape,Culture of Substance Abuse,Dehumanizing Behiavor,Desire,Healing,Predators,Reality Television,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Sexual Abuse,Surrender,The Bachelor and The Bachelorette,Wendell Berry
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 08 Mar 2016
Today is our fifth videocast in our series about Radically Redemptive Relationships. There is probably no other area in life where we experience more pain, hope, heartache, and desire . . . and I think God intended it to be that way. My prayer is that we will not be afraid to look a little […]
Tags: fierce battles, letting go, letting God, Parenthood, Redemption
Filed in Bravehearts,Change,Desire,Disappointment,Dreams,God Only Writes Good Stories,God's Mercy,Grace,Gratitude,Home,Illusion of control,Parenthood,Radically Redemptive Relationships,Redemption,Relationship with Jesus,Surrender
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 22 Feb 2016
RADICALLY REDEMPTIVE RELATIONSHIPS – FINDING COMMON GROUND FOR THE SAKE OF LOVE https://youtu.be/Stay Skinny or Stay Hungry?OMKJOZpYOa8 When my daughter became sick, I could hardly comprehend the reality that she – my wild child, joy of my life – was ill with a disease that kills more young woman, between the ages of 17-23, in […]
Tags: Anorexia, Choose Life, Hard Work, Healing, Heartache, Hunger, Live Full, Radically Redemptive Relationships, Skinny, Strong
Filed in Addiction,Change,Dehumanizing Behiavor,Desire,Eat Disorders,Freedom,Giving to Others,Grace,Gratitude,Healing,Killing Desire,lifehurts.us,Loneliness,Newness,Perfectionism,Powerlessness,Radically Redemptive Relationships,Redemption,Resurrection,Starvation,Stay Skinny or Stay Hungry?,Surrender,Telling the Truth,The R cubed Challenge,Uncategorized,Vulnerability
shersh on 02 Feb 2016
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
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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 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
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