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🗓️ 18 July 2015
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Dan shares his post-reunion reflections, marveling about how returning to specific faces, names, and places of our lives can offer a taste of restoration.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender. |
0:08.0 | A few weeks ago, Dan talked about his ambivalence about returning home for his 45th high school reunion. |
0:13.8 | On this week's podcast, Dan reflects on some of the surprising interactions from that reunion |
0:18.1 | and the power of speaking beauty and kindness over younger selves. |
0:22.7 | Also, don't miss Becky Allender's reflections about the reunion on our blog at the |
0:27.1 | Allender Center.org. |
0:30.7 | A week or two ago, I did a podcast on the anticipation of going to our 45th class reunion for high school. And we have returned, |
0:45.2 | and I thought it was at least good for me, to do some reflection on that experience. |
0:52.6 | And to begin with, I mentioned that I was not anticipating this particular |
1:00.5 | portion of a trip that lasted about 14 days. For several days, I was involved in training |
1:08.7 | for a podcast or a podcast that we'll talk about probably in August. |
1:16.2 | That is a motorcycle trip, backcountry in Colorado, with Ransom Heart, John Eldridge, |
1:26.7 | sons, and one of their friends by the name of John, |
1:32.7 | did three days of significant, terrifying work in the back country on what's called an |
1:43.1 | adventure motorcycle. |
1:44.7 | As a motorcyclist, I am not used to gravel, shale, rocks, water, hills, all sorts of complexity. |
1:55.8 | So that was an intriguing, exhausting time. |
1:59.2 | Spent time with your friends at a ranch, to rest, to relax, |
2:03.6 | went on then from there to Columbus, Ohio for our 45th. Part of the complexity is that high school |
2:14.5 | for me was not precisely an exquisite experience. I think in the midst of |
2:21.9 | my own recklessness, my own personal violence against myself and others, the bombast of both |
2:32.0 | arrogance, adolescence, abuse, turmoil, and my own home, it just made |
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