Friendship Cycles, Part 2

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Note: This episode contains some explicit language; listener discretion is advised.

After a relationship has ruptured, can there be repair? Dan and Rachael continue to talk through the cycle of friendship and the difficult process of reconciling a cherished friendship gone awry.

Dan asks, “How do you go how you trust someone who's already harmed you to open the door to desire? Because to do that feels like you're now taking on way more than the original wound. You're taking on that shame on you first time for hurting me, shame on me the second time that I actually opened myself to further harm by wishing and opening the door to reconciliation.”

Rachael shares, “It really does take a radical kind of hope. It takes a radical kind of vulnerability, humility, patience.”

Listen as they talk through their personal experiences of rupture and repair, and the wisdom we can find in Romans 12 to “be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer,” as we move toward reconciliation and restoration.

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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.
0:29.2	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Rachel, let me ask you if you remember a podcast we did.
0:34.7	You know, we're aging, aren't we?
0:36.6	I know exactly what you're going to talk about.
0:39.2	Do you really?
0:40.1	Then you go ahead.
0:41.1	Let me test and see.
0:42.8	I'll tell you the truth once you tell me what I was thinking.
0:46.1	Are you going to talk about the podcast we did on not being well?
0:50.4	Yes.
0:51.2	A total detour of the podcast we were intending to do because we were so unwell.
0:58.4	Freak me out.
1:00.2	You know, this is both the benefit of a long-term good, holy, difficult relationship that you can predict that before.
1:09.5	Yes, I feel similar. Like, I don't want to talk about
1:13.0	this. And we're going to talk about Psalm 55, a number of other passages, about the process
1:20.3	of reconciling with someone who's hurt you or you've hurt someone else. And let's just say, I have actually asked as three good friends, and I'm going to disguise
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