Finding Meaning in Life Transitions with Amy Davis Abdallah

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In our fast-paced Western culture, it’s too easy to run to the next “thing” and dismiss the meaning of the previous activity, event, or season. But is this healthy for our souls?

Take breastfeeding, for example. Or sending your kids off to kindergarten. Or for your kids, leaving their grandparent's house after an extended vacation. Perhaps moving to a new house. Every one of these moments are beautiful, but also have an end, a transition that includes a goodbye.

In this episode, theologian and professor Amy Davis Abdallah joins us to provide a framework for putting meaning to all of the life transitions we experience on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. The author of Meaning in the Moment: How Rituals Help Us Move Through Joy, Pain, and Everything in Between, Abdallah describes how rituals can shape our family and form the hearts of our kids.

In this episode, Amy describes:

The meaning and purpose of a ritual
How we’ve embraced cultural rituals, yet rarely think of them for our own lives
Simple ways you can create rituals for your kids to honor life transitions
How simple rituals can help us hold grief and joy at the same time

Show Notes:
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Transcript

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0:00.0	I grew up in a ritual denying tradition in a tradition that actually did a bunch of rituals.
0:05.6	They just didn't call it that.
0:07.9	And because they had an understanding that rituals were devoid of Holy Spirit power
0:12.9	and that rituals were just wrote and dry and dull, well, I've been part of rituals that are not
0:18.7	devoid of Holy Spirit power and that are not
0:22.5	wrote and dry and dull, but are incredibly transforming and transformative.
0:27.5	You are listening to the Famous at Home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:33.3	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:43.2	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast. I am so excited to introduce you to another interview
0:48.9	this week. As we start 2024, we're doing interviews that we invited people onto the podcast to talk about what we believe are ways that we can really set a foundation for our families as we begin 2024.
1:02.5	Last week we had our friend Jordan Rayner on the podcast talking about the sacredness of secular work and how each of us, including our families, our family units are to be used
1:12.6	to build and work for the kingdom of God, to build for the kingdom of God in the days ahead.
1:18.7	And so I love that interview.
1:20.7	If you haven't been, have a chance to listen to that, make sure you go do that, especially
1:24.3	as you think about how you and your family can build for the kingdom
1:28.2	and help your kids find purpose and meaning greater than themselves.
1:32.5	And so today's interview is with a friend that I have had for many years.
1:38.6	We kind of lost touch because we went to grad school together in Nyack, New York.
1:43.2	But Amy Davis Abdelah, and I don't know that I pronounced it fully correctly,
1:48.3	but Amy Davis A, as she describes her website.
1:52.4	She puts her website, Amy Davis A.
1:54.4	She joins us today.
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