Keeping Sabbath

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

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🗓️ 13 February 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

“How is your Sabbath?” As he opens the conversation on this week’s podcast, Dr. Dan Allender invites us to consider this question of ourselves. You’ll hear him and Rachael discuss the particulars of their own Sabbath practices, the wildness and play they each experience, and how Sabbath is not bound to a certain day or strict code of conduct. A true Sabbath is meant to engage both beauty and heartbreak, to stretch us, to grow us, and to show us the places where we long for the Kingdom of God in the here and now.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast. I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.7	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Cent. We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.7	And restoration for the heart. Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started.
0:23.6	Well, Rachel, a question that I don't think people ask very often. Let me ask you. So how is your Sabbath?
0:34.4	You know, well, one thing I think is interesting is trying to figure out which day to Sabbath,
0:41.7	because obviously in the Christian tradition, Sunday would be a Sabbath day. But for us,
0:48.3	Sundays are a transition day, living in a co-parenting situation, in a blended family, Sunday is a day that right in the
0:56.9	middle of the day is a really hard transition where you're having to say goodbye or welcome
1:04.7	back and there's just some relocating that happens.
1:08.0	So often we try to think about Saturday as being our Sabbath day and our home
1:14.5	because we're not working the kids aren't in school and we can we can be much more spacious with our
1:23.5	intentionality so I would say as any parent of children, our Sabbath was lively and
1:31.8	always holds a lot of tension. Amen. A lot like the goodness of life. Yeah, there's just a lot of
1:41.9	different, a lot of contradicting or, you know, like negotiating around how we experience delight together.
1:52.0	Yeah, well, and our Sabbath was spent. I love the idea of tracking ideas.
2:01.6	So a lot of my Sabbaths ends up like reading something and then going,
2:08.2	oh, but I get to go play with this on my Sabbath.
2:13.0	And because at least in the non-COVID era, you know, I would travel a lot on weekends. And so it would be a
2:20.7	Monday. So don't get hung up about what day or that it has to be 24 hours. You can Sabbath in a two or three
2:30.0	hour period of time as long as you are cutting that time off for what we're inviting you to do.
2:37.6	And at least in my Sabbath, there are two things. I don't know why. I live in the Northwest,
2:44.6	and I have never studied moss. Come on. It's practically growing on me. So I spent a couple hours just reading about moss
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