Friendship Cycles, Part 1

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

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🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Why do friendships end? Perhaps there was a betrayal, the friendship was hard to maintain, or life happens. Whatever the reason, losing a friendship is hard. In this first conversation of a two-part series. Dan and Rachael talk about the very real feelings of loss, grief, anger that can accompany the loss of a friendship.

Be sure to come back next week as we continue the conversation by talking through the hope of repentance, reconciliation, and restoration that’s possible in the wake of lost friendships.

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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.
0:29.6	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Normally we don't begin by reading a psalm, but I think this psalm will give you a very keen indication of what we're going to
0:40.4	talk about today. This is from Psalm 55, verse 4. My heart is in anguish within me, and the
0:48.4	terrors of death have fallen on me. Fear and trembling have beset me. Horror has overwhelmed me. And I said, oh, that I had the wings
0:59.0	of a dove, I would fly away and be at rest. Now, further on in the Psalm, verse 12, if an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it.
1:13.2	If a foe were rising against me, I could hide.
1:17.6	But it is you, a man like myself, my companion, my close friend, with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship at the house of God as we walked
1:32.0	among the worshippers.
1:35.7	Rachel, there's just nothing harder than the loss of a friendship, particularly through
1:41.5	the experience of betrayal.
1:44.1	And so what we're addressing is how to understand friendships that don't continue in a way in which we at once had a true companion.
1:57.0	The word companion from Latin is with bread, somebody that you have broken bread with. And that
2:07.8	sense of, particularly in the ancient world, like to eat together was a level of intimacy
2:15.8	that was shared in a way that even today, there's still that
2:20.9	sense of a meal means something, but even more so that we have broken bread together.
2:29.3	And here, instead of breaking bread, we are broken as a consequence.
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