You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.

This week, Dan is joined by his wife, Becky Allender, to reflect on their experience of Thanksgiving and explore the nature of gratitude.

Dan and Becky identify the comparison, entitlement, and envy that kill gratitude,

inviting all of us to a posture of thankfulness that acknowledges our dependence on and love

for each other. Well, it is Thanksgiving season and a time where we are expected, or at least presumed, that we

will be aware of the necessity and the importance of gratitude.

So Becky, so glad to have you with me again.

I'm so grateful to have you with me.

I'm grateful to.

So just a thought or two as to when you think of

Thanksgiving, what memories are there for you, particularly in terms of your childhood?

Well, we would drive early, well, mid-morning for about an hour and a half to South Charleston, Ohio.

And I remember all the fields, woods and farmers fields and the gray.

And I just remember the leaves would have fallen off the trees.

And I was very drawn to the artistry of the

limbs and the big oak trees. And we would go to my grandmothers and it would be a time that often

might have 30 grandchildren there in a house that wasn't that large, but lots of aunts and uncles and children's

tables, but it was always a pretty big deal when you finally got to sit at the adult table.

But I remember just decorations and the best china, and I can see my grandparents both in long white aprons, and

just it was really an amazing time.

I really enjoyed those times.

It was chaotic, but I did like them.

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