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NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART: The wild world of Facebook

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“It’s good to do uncomfortable things. It’s weight training for life.” –Anne Lamott

It seemed like a good idea. 12 weeks before the presidential election I thought I would post little encouraging videos every Tuesday to see if they might encourage dialogue about how we could make this season more healing, less wounding. That didn’t happen. I was quickly introduced into…

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Relational Violence: Change in the Ruins

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithforward/2020/09/relational-violence-change-in-the-ruins/

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Tuesdays Together - Weeks 3 and 4

Tuesdays Together – Weeks 3 and 4

We are counting down to the next presidential election (now 7 weeks away), and I have invited you to join me on Tuesdays to wonder together if and how this season can be healing instead of further breaking us apart.

In Week 3 I talk about The Day I Learned I Had Covid 19. I crashed into an unexpected and confusing illness, and pretty quickly wanted to know who to blame. Blame seems natural to…

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Tuesdays Together - Break Some Rules, Bring Socks

Tuesdays Together – Break Some Rules, Bring Socks

Last week I invited you to my birthday wish – that we get together every Tuesday over the next few weeks. In two months we will elect our next president. What if this season – instead of pushing and pulling us away from each other – becomes our way back to one another? I asked you to bring a piece of glass with as many colors and patterns as possible and to bring a hammer. Here is the video:

My…

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Belonging: Videocasts JOIN ME for six incredible videocasts. Livestream with Q&A at The programs will also be recorded on social media.

BREAKING NEWS: There Really is a Conspiracy

As the season of coronavirus continues, we are less “in this together” and more divided as we pick our perspective on the pandemic: * Electromagnetic waves from 5G networks caused the virus to hit. * Bill Gates released the COVID-19 in a plot to vaccinate the world’s population. * The virus escaped from a Chinese lab. * COVID was created as a biological weapon by anti-American forces. * The…

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#belonging #conspiracy theories #coronavirus #plandemic #the Gospel #trauma

WE WANT MORE THAN NORMAL, DON'T WE?

WE WANT MORE THAN NORMAL, DON’T WE?

It started with a runny nose. Allergies? Within twenty-four hours I was glued to my bed with a centrifugal force. Aches, chill, 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 taste again I started to echo the chant of so many, “When can we get back to normal?” I missed my…

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#coronavirus

The Way Back: Becoming Real

The way back reminds me of a familiar childhood story. Let’s read it again, thinking about our way back to becoming real:

“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, as they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, just before Nana came in to tidy up the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”

“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin…

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Little Earthquakes Everywhere From Belonging: Finding the Way Back to One Another Before the summer earthquake in my story, I believed a relationship with my daughter was too painful and too hard.

WHO NEEDS CONVERSATION?

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 changing the conversation to stretch the tent to be wide enough for…

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#Holy cow!#Holy ground #Love Listens #Love talks #The Convos #the Love Zone #This is About Us

THE CONVOS: SAVING CONVERSATION

If you missed CONVO #1 on SAVING CONVERSATION, you can listen by copying this link and clicking: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Asfc_1Nx41LwgYdffizom47EM7fPHQ or go to http://www.facebook.com/sharonhersh.

Yes, I introduced myself as an almost 60 year-old woman (holy cow!) who is half Republican, half Democrat; part introvert and part extrovert; a recovering alcoholic; fierce lover of Jesus; and as someone…

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#Holy cow!#Holy ground #Love Listens #Love talks #Politics #Saving conversation #The Convos

The Convos Do you want to have a conversation after the election? A conversation that’s not about “them?” This is about us.

HOW THE BACHELOR SCHOOLED STANFORD WITH WINE & KISSES

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 to win the rose. I cringed at the lengths that some…

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#Culture of Distorted Sexuality #Culture of Objectification #Culture of Rape #Culture of Substance Abuse #Sexual Healing #Stanford Rape #The Bachelor & Bachelorette

REMEMBERING COLUMBINE AND 4/20

I posted this on Facebook early this morning and a good friend asked me to send it through Word Press. I guess Facebook goes posts get eaten by other posts pretty quickly (I’m not too savvy on these things).

I woke up at 5:00 a.m. this morning remembering a very differing April 20.

On April 20, 1999 our world changed forever. When I heard the news of the massacre at a high school just miles…

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#4/20 #A Prayer of Grief for Our Lost Children #Adolph Hitler #Be Here #Columbine Massacre #Marijuana #National Pot Smoker&039;s Day #Numbness #Practice Resurrection #propaganda #Where is God?

THE TERRIBLE, BEAUTIFUL WASTE

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 between its brushes and took small chips of paint hostage. And then I waited for two hours while the clerk waited on everyone else…

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#Beautiful worship #King David #Loss #Pain #Strange Women #Surrender #Toxic #Waste

WHY ME? WHY AM I STILL SINGLE? RADICALLY REDEMPTIVE RELATIONSHIPS

The next videocast is about one of the most confusing, painful realities that I face and hear about from others. Singleness.

It taunts you in a house full of people. It greets you at the end of a day, after you’ve done everything you’re supposed to do. It walks with you through the aisles of the grocery store. It sits with you in church. It will join you at the table for Thanksgiving dinner. It…

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#Loneliness #our terrible beautiful ache #Relationships #Singleness #the shadows #the substance

BETRAYAL - RADICALLY REDEMPTIVE RELATIONSHIPS

BETRAYAL – RADICALLY REDEMPTIVE RELATIONSHIPS

This is the next videocast in the Radically Redemptive Relationships series. We talk about betrayal, but the truth is that we can’t put words to it. We were made to never be betrayed, and so we don’t manage it well. We rage at God, we hurt others, and ourselves. Betrayal is the exact opposite of what we were created to do, “Love God and our neighbors as we love ourselves.”

I just got out of…

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#Alcohol and Grace Abuse #Come out of Hiding #Erik Guzman #keylife.org #Steffany Gretzinger

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