sharon hersh

Sharon writes, talks, and wonders about recovery, Jesus, relationships, reality tv, and glory!

[sharon hersh @sharonhersh]

@MattWallace888 It WASN’T a picture of Trump

[sharon hersh @sharonhersh]

@BethMooreLPM I’m with you!

[sharon hersh @sharonhersh]

@ANNELAMOTT Love. If we can tell and listen to the stories beneath the stories, maybe we can walk each other into wholeness. Thank you.

[sharon hersh @sharonhersh]

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[chuck degroat @chuckdegroat]

“Burnout is a state of emptiness, to be sure, but it does not result from giving all I have; it merely reveals the nothingness from which I was trying to give in the first place.”

~Parker Palmer

[sharon hersh @sharonhersh]

@SamJolman Prayin' to catch you whispering
I'm prayin' you catch me listening
I'm prayin' to catch you whispering
I'm prayin' you catch me
I'm prayin' to catch you whispering
I'm prayin' you catch me listening
I'm prayin' you catch me

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[chuck degroat @chuckdegroat]

It's odd that a religion that carries the cross as its central symbol should produce a culture of people who consider suffering, whether it comes from a broken body or a broken heart, a violation of their spiritual rights.

~ Eugene Peterson

[sharon hersh @sharonhersh]

Again @UnitedAirlines disappoints. I paid $150 to upgrade for outlets for my for my device bc I need to work. The outlet is broken. Their response is “too bad.” What other customer service would work like this??? I want my $150 refunded. #nevertrustUnitecAirlined

[Sam Jolman @SamJolman]

Do you know what stirs the greatest awe in humans?

No, it's not nature. Those sunsets and waterfalls do move us but not most of all.

We are most wowed by other humans who brave something, persevere hardship, or live with "moral beauty." I love this!

[chuck degroat @chuckdegroat]

What I’ve learned the hard way, at times, is the work that I don’t do within is the war I wage with others. And sometimes, quite embarrassingly over the years, even on social media.

If we don’t attend to our shadows, they may become hammers.

[Sam Jolman @SamJolman]

I wish therapy helped people figure out their stories, making everything make sense. But we live life with a staggering amount of mystery.

Therapy is working through certain deeply meaningful scenes and relationships so you can catch again the scent of meaning and keep living.

[sharon hersh @sharonhersh]

@mglodorts @camillevward That is the deal. Making it easy for men should not be “the art of the deal.”

[sharon hersh @sharonhersh]

@ANNELAMOTT I’m not. But if this is true, I want to be a whale

[sharon hersh @sharonhersh]

@SamJolman @adaptivefaith Sam, where are you teaching? They are so fortunate to have you!

[chuck degroat @chuckdegroat]

He makes us utterly real
and everything that is
hurt
dark
harsh
shameful
irreparably damaged
is in Him transformed.

St Symeon

[chuck degroat @chuckdegroat]

“Desires are manufactured as surely as are the commodities meant to fulfill them. We consume our needs, unaware that what we take to be a ‘need’ has been artificially produced.”

Julia Kristeva, French-Bulgarian psychoanalyst

[Sam Jolman @SamJolman]

I am so moved by this. The world aches for kind men. At least, I know I do.

I watched this game and it was passionate play to the last minute.

If only men could be free to bring their hearts to life and cry and embrace beyond the playing fields of sports.

[chuck degroat @chuckdegroat]

This is the brain on what Jim Wilder calls “enemy mode,” the brain in sympathetic hyper-arousal, an autonomic state that “feels” right and certain, and operates in fight/flight. It takes self-knowledge and humility to recognize this and move toward empathy and connection.

[chuck degroat @chuckdegroat]

“What happens in psychotherapy?

We ask the question – how can I be vulnerable and safe while the illusions of my life are exposed?”

— James Finley

[chuck degroat @chuckdegroat]

We are all are born into the world looking for someone looking for us, and we remain in this mode of searching for the rest of our lives.

@curt_thompsonmd