Flourishing and Anticipation

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast, Dan and Rachael continue their conversation about what flourishing looks like as we emerge into a different stage of the pandemic. Much is reopening, and yet we’re also waiting in anticipation for what is to come in the next few months. How can we continue to be faithful in the small without giving in to the urge to jump into major changes? What imagination can we grow for what we are anticipating in this next season of life, particularly as we begin to allow our hearts, bodies, and relationships to flourish?

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.7	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen.
0:10.5	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.7	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.2	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:27.3	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Well, Dan, we're in the midst of pondering what does flourishing look like in the threshold season that we're in, where so much is opening and yet so much is still
0:41.6	we're waiting to see what will happen as we are emerging into a different stage of the pandemic.
0:48.1	And one of the things we were talking about was celebrating the small things. And, you know, we were laughing when we finished
0:57.0	the podcast last week that though we kind of started by naming, here's some of the ways
1:00.9	we're not well, which there's a lot of truth to that. I think one of the small things we can
1:04.5	celebrate is I feel far less fragmented as we come to these podcast conversations than I have at other iterations of the past
1:14.1	14 months.
1:16.2	That makes me laugh because, again, we'd have to invite the audience to make their own decision.
1:26.8	I do too.
1:28.3	I feel a little less fragmented, but a part of me goes, maybe last week may not have been the most clear and articulate.
1:37.7	But yeah, it's like if we're celebrating the small, even our sense, which may not be sensible, is something to be able
1:48.6	to go, that's good. Even if you're fooling yourself, there's at least some degree of honor
1:55.2	and being able to go, oh, may it be, may trauma, which inevitably fragments, as there is some degree of growing wholeness,
2:08.3	there should be less, should we say scatteredness, less exhaustion, less fragmentation.
2:17.1	But it's so important for me to keep coming back to the expectations I hold for myself.
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