Archive for the 'Vulnerability' Category
shersh on 24 Apr 2020
It started with a runny nose. Allergies? Within twenty-four hours I was glued to my bed with a centrifugal force. Aches, chills, and fever paralyzed me. I started coughing . . . and then I knew. The coronavirus was calling. I was fortunate. I recovered at home, and by the time I could smell and […]
Tags: belonging, belonging book, Blameshifting, coronavirus, Covid19, hold on, kiss the monster on the lips, laughter, let go, more than Normal, the Way back, we belong to each other
Filed in aholyexperience.com,Amazon Prime,Breathe Love,Change,Desire,Disappointment,Giving to Others,God Only Writes Good Stories,God's Mercy,Grace,Gratitude,Illusion of control,Isolation,Loneliness,Love will have the final word,Loving our neighbors,Masks,New Book,Powerlessness,Practice Resurrection,Sorrow,Vulnerability,Wendell Berry
shersh on 24 Nov 2018
Three weeks ago my friend, Nick Richtsmeier and I began The Convos – a conversation on Facebook (about the worst place to have a conversation) based on our belief that conversations make us and break us. This week we talked about Thanksgiving table talk, gun violence, trolls, the “love zone,” the Orlando nightclub shooting, and […]
Tags: Holy cow!, Holy ground, Love Listens, Love talks, The Convos, the Love Zone, This is About Us
Filed in Black Friday,Breathe Love,Busyness,Change,Dehumanizing Behiavor,Failure,Gratitude,holidays,Holy cow!,Holy ground,Imposter,Loneliness,Love Listens,Love Talks,Loving our neighbors,Masks,Politics,Radically Redemptive Relationships,Saving Conversation,Say Something,Social Media,Thanksgiving,The Convos,The Person Behind the Opinion,The World is Wide Enough,This is About Us,Vulnerability,Words
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
Filed in 2 Women Finding Common Ground for Love's Sake,Affairs,Ashley Madison,Betrayal,Bravehearts,Breathe,Breathe Fire,Breathe Love,Dehumanizing Behiavor,Desire,Disappointment,Failure,Freedom,God Only Writes Good Stories,God's Mercy,Grace,Gratitude,Holly Stratton,lifehurts.us,Loneliness,Love Story,Masks,Radically Redemptive Relationships,Redemption,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Resurrection,Say Something,Scandal,Surrender,Thirst,TulianTchividjian,Uncategorized,Vulnerability
shersh on 26 Jan 2016
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
Filed in Addiction,Alcoholism,Bravehearts,Change,Confession,COURAGE TO CHANGE,Desire,Disappointment,Divorce,Donald Miller - Scary Close,Failure,Freedom,Giving to Others,God Only Writes Good Stories,God's Mercy,Grace,Holly Stratton,Illusion of control,Imposter,legalism,lifehurts.us,Loneliness,Love Story,Passion,Pride,Radically Redemptive Relationships,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Tattoos,Telling the Truth,The R cubed Challenge,Vulnerability
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
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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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