Gifts of Delight and Wonder
The Allender Center Podcast
The Allender Center
4.7 • 648 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
What's the best present you've ever gotten? And what's the present you were the most proud to give?
Join Dan and Rachael in today's episode as they explore the nuances of gift-giving during the Christmas season. They share insights into their personal approaches to selecting and presenting gifts for their loved ones, while also navigating the complexities of holiday expectations, addressing grief and heartache that can come up, and emphasizing the importance of self-honoring.
The conversation extends beyond material presents to the importance of "presence" – both in relationships and in connection with the divine during the holiday season.
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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-Cenn. |
| 0:10.6 | 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. |
| 0:28.6 | Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Rachel, the question I want to begin with is, do you think much about your gift giving? |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah, I do. |
| 0:40.5 | You do. |
| 0:41.1 | I know that. |
| 0:41.8 | Yeah, yeah, I do. |
| 0:43.3 | I don't always, it feels like in the realm of like the curse, the curse, because it feels |
| 0:51.5 | that sense of like, I genuinely want to gift people in that way |
| 0:57.3 | that makes some feel like seen and known |
| 1:00.1 | and anticipated and surprised. |
| 1:05.2 | Let me give an example. |
| 1:07.6 | Let me give an example. |
| 1:09.7 | Why don't you describe what you purchased with our team, but you were the primary lead for a point of celebration, at least in my life? |
| 1:24.8 | Well, you and our friend, Kathy Lorzell, wrote a book called Redeeming Heartache, |
| 1:31.7 | which was a labor of love to capture so much of your life's work, Kathy's life's work up to that point. |
| 1:40.4 | And it happened to be written in a season just fraught with a lot of suffering in the larger |
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