Archive for the Tag 'Grace'
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 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 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
Filed in Addiction,Alcoholism,Busyness,C.S. Lewis,Confession,Desire,Disappointment,Donald Miller - Scary Close,Failure,Fraud,Freedom,God's Mercy,Grace,Gratitude,History Channel - Alone,Home,Illusion of control,Imposter,Isolation,Living Water,Loneliness,Love Story,Loving our neighbors,Masks,Passion,Perfectionism,Powerlessness,Predators,Reality Television,Redemption,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Sexual Abuse,Singleness,Sorrow,Starvation,Success,Surrender,Survivalists,Telling the Truth,The Last Addiction,Thirst
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
shersh on 08 Aug 2012
It’s been almost three months since I last posted a Salvation Story. Time does truly fly sometimes, doesn’t it? There isn’t a tragic or wonderful reason I haven’t written. I’ve been busy. My clients have been more burdened, more needy, more desperate . . . and I’ve been more privileged than usual to be a […]
Tags: Addiction, Breathe, Busyness, Grace, Jesus, The Olympics, vacation
Filed in Addiction,Addiction Treatment,Alcoholism,Breathe,Busyness,Change,Confession,Disappointment,Failure,Freedom,Giving to Others,God's Mercy,Grace,Gratitude,Healing,Newness,Powerlessness,Redemption,Relationship with Jesus,Salvation Story,Surrender,The Olympics,Uncategorized,Vacation
shersh on 04 Dec 2011
I took a fast from Facebook because I was getting bogged down in emails, appointments, blogs to be written, etc., etc. In other words, I was getting crushed under the pile of thinking I was pretty important. Jesus really is a genius when it comes to knowing how our hearts work. Just when I start […]
Tags: Gift, Grace, Gratitude, Salvation Story, Self-Importance
Filed in Confession,God's Mercy,Grace,Gratitude,Imposter,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Salvation Story,Telling the Truth,Thanksgiving,Uncategorized
shersh on 14 Oct 2011
“The invisible dragon roared, I cowered, and what I’ve called “the impostor” was born, a shadow to the my eight-year-old life. The impostor is a fake version of yourself, and that exactly how I started living. I faked being happy when I was sad. I faked being excited when I was disappointed. I even faked […]
Tags: Brennan Manning, Fake, Grace, Imposter, Salvation Stories, Trapped, Unconditional Love
Filed in Addiction,Alcoholism,All is Grace,Brennan Manning,Change,Confession,Disappointment,Failure,Freedom,God's Mercy,Grace,Imposter,Powerlessness,Redemption,Relationship with Jesus,Salvation Story,Telling the Truth
shersh on 12 Jun 2011
“Count back from one hundred,” the anesthesiologist prompted me with the standard cue that ushers surgery patients into a safe oblivion. In those split seconds before everything went blank I remember thinking, “It would be okay if I didn’t wake up.” Wow. Even as I write that sentence it is hard for me to believe that […]
Tags: Addiction, Colorado, counselor, Grace, Gratitude, Healing, Illness, Sharon Hersh, Storms, substance abuse, Suffering
Filed in Addiction,Begin Again Believe Again,Change,Disappointment,God's Mercy,Gratitude,Healing,Redemption,Relationship with Jesus,Sorrow,Thanksgiving,Uncategorized
shersh on 10 Apr 2011
BEFORE READING: Please know that my intention in writing the blog below was not to shame anyone. Quite honestly I wrote this blog immediately after watching the 20/20 program and it practically wrote itself — without any checks in my spirit. After receiving one email from a friend concerned that I was doing the same […]
Tags: Addiction, alcoholism, bob jones, Colorado, counselor, forgiveness, fundamentalists, Grace, legalism, Sharon Hersh, substance abuse, tina anderson, university
Filed in Addiction,Confession,Freedom,God's Mercy,legalism,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Telling the Truth
shersh on 27 Feb 2011
Dating update for all you kind enough to ask: I’ve had my first, awkward, anxiety-filled date. It was not a match. The second “opportunity” is this week! Today I went to a place called BridgeHouse. It is a critical care unit for adults who require acute psychiatric care. When I arrived I pushed a button […]
Tags: Addiction, Colorado, counselor, Grace, Humanness, Jesus, Mental Illness, Sharon Hersh, substance abuse
Filed in Addiction,Mental Illness,Relationship with Jesus,Relationships,Telling the Truth
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