Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.

I'm Dr. Dan Allender.

And I'm Rachel Clinton-Cenn.

We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.

And restoration for the heart.

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We are on our final reflection, at least at this time, on hospitality.

And just a quick review, Trumper began our conversation to talk about two very important elements,

and that is in the ancient Near East, the code of hospitality was a form of honor in which you offered both protection and provision.

And that is such a quick but core definition.

Provision? For what? Well, good food, but more than good food, good drink. An atmosphere that creates safety for you to engage whatever forms of reality need to be engaged.

And if that is grief, then we enter grief together.

We weep with those who weep and we rejoice with those who rejoice. That's hospitality. You attune

yourself, you involve yourself with your guests in a way in which you invite them more

into the reality that they bring and the reality that is ahead.

So that took us into our conversation of, you know,

hospitality changes over years.

And it's as important to know that we need to learn from being given hospitality as it is that we offer.

And you brought up, Becky, our dear, dear, dear friend, Annie Link, and how really our first daughter's name, Anna, is primarily because we both learned so much about life through Annie Link and how she

offered us a hospitality that I would say is bar none, one of the sweetest and best we've ever known.

So just to recount anything else you want me to remind folks from what we covered before.

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