Holding Hope for a New Year

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

We may be at the start of a new year, but that does not mean we leave all of what transpired in 2020 behind—this season will continue to ask much of us. As you’ll hear Dan comment, it’s no surprise we now find ourselves at the “intersection between dread and incredible hope.” While not the typical tone that accompanies a New Year’s podcast episode, Dan and Rachael instead present us with an unusual invitation to slow down, to be gentle with ourselves, and allow ourselves to taste something of hope.

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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-Cent.
0:10.5	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.8	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.2	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:24.3	Rachel. Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Rachel, it is 2021. And I have to confess. I've never done really well with odd years.
0:35.7	Oh. Yeah.
0:46.5	No, I was so excited about 2020 because it's as round a number as I will ever have in my whole life.
0:53.8	And it had to be, of course, one of the worst sucking years in the universe.
1:02.8	So I'm actually anticipating that 2021 as an odd year could be more even than it's ever been.
1:09.7	I know that's a strange beginning, but as you think about the new year, which again, it's so artificial.
1:11.2	We just passed a couple days, but now we're talking about 2021.
1:16.5	I don't even want to ask, what are you anticipating?
1:19.6	I don't really even want to ask how you're looking forward to the year,
1:24.3	because I'll tell you, I have this intersection between dread, just dread,
1:32.9	an incredible hope.
1:35.0	So I want to talk about dread and hope.
1:37.4	Okay.
1:39.2	Yeah, well, I'm also going to say, so where does dread and hope take you?
1:46.4	Well, I mean, I feel well acquainted with these things.
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