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You're listening to The Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.

This week, Dan and Becky Allender continue our series on play by reflecting on what deep, meaningful play reveals about living as people who are captivated by the radiance

of God.

This is about so much more than distraction or escape.

It's about a spirit of play that grows us more deeply into who we were created to be. One of the questions we often get is what's the difference between work and play.

And I do think there's a distinction.

But one of the things I would hope for in this podcast is that it would become a bit fuzzier.

In fact, the dream would be that your work would be full of play.

And in fact, your play, a labor that opens the door not just to the matters of the activity, but actually opens your

heart to the matters of God, and therefore is the great work of God. And so if we can say that,

yes, the majority of time play, or better said, work is something that you feel required to do, that requires

a certain amount of time and expertise and exhaustion. And play is really the realm of freedom.

It's not necessity. It's where you let go, let loose, and have fun. Work is onerous.

Play is fun. That's how I think most people engage the difference between those two.

I know when I first started praying and being a part of the Allender Center, there were times that we would

be going over business or what we needed to go off to next and we'd go into a group.

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