Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.

I'm Dr. Dan Allender.

And I'm Rachel Clinton-Chen.

We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.

And restoration for the heart.

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Let's get this conversation started.

Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. In these days of what feels like endless ache and wave after wave of trauma and demand for resilience, we feel like it's so timely to spend some time revisiting

a podcast series we did about qualities of a well-lived story. And stories so deeply influence

how we respond to crisis events, the people around us, how we imagine the world around us

and therefore know how to live within it.

This was one I needed to hear again.

You know, we've done one on not doing well.

I've needed to hear that, but I need to be reminded as to what in this odd and heartbreaking season,

it means to live well, the gospel story and the story that we've been uniquely called to live so i am looking forward to hearing this again particularly

given the fact that as we talk about those qualities of courage, of commitment and care, and that deep, deep need for kindness, we'll eventually get to introduce our spouses through this process.

So we've got a lot, a lot to hear.

Rachel, I am so excited about what we're going to do over the span of a number of weeks.

We're going to talk about what it means to live a well-lived story.

The bottom line is, look, our own story is never enough to in one sense

guide us into living well. We need others. We need models. We need pictures. We need examples of people

who draw us, who in many ways almost unnerve us with the level of their life.

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