How to Remember a Year

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

How do we remember a year well, particularly a year that many of us may not want to look back and reflect upon? What is there to gain in remembering 2020? In the final podcast episode of the year, Dan and Rachael have a conversation about the necessity of engaging and learning from this tumultuous year and share their answers to three, reflective questions: What haunts me? What comforts me? What thrills me?

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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.
0:26.4	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Rachel, this is our last podcast for the inglorious year 2020.
0:34.9	And before we go into what we want to talk about, let me just say,
0:40.5	I hope it was a Merry Christmas.
0:42.9	And let me just say Merry Christmas to you.
0:45.9	Yeah, and you as well.
0:47.8	What a season.
0:49.1	What a crazy season it has been. But we can say, look, this whole year 2020 has been nothing compared to what any of us would have thought would be true starting on January 1st on 2020. But as we end the year, we know it's a very artificial
1:15.7	process to complete a year and start another year because, look, it's just one day difference.
1:23.2	But nonetheless, I think it is one of those times that is so wise to look back and to, in some sense, take in as much as we can at the end of the year as to what the process was.
1:39.8	What are we to become and learn and engage as a result of having lived, at least from my 68 years,
1:49.9	one of the most tumultuous years I've ever lived on this earth?
1:54.1	So as we begin to reflect on this, before we even jump in, I'd love to know from your perspective, what is the gain in remembering a year?
2:07.9	Well, I mean, when I think about just the very act of remembering, you know, we see a lot even in the biblical text that tells us to remember.
2:22.7	And obviously, it's a lot more fun to remember years that bear a lot more goodness,
2:29.6	like maybe more goodness and abundance than despair and sorrow. And yet, um,
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