Rituals & Rhythms for Intentionality

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

With so many things fighting for our attention, how do we intentionally create space of goodness for ourselves and others? Join us as we contemplate what it means to focus on the things that matter as we begin this new year.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.5	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen.
0:10.5	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.5	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.0	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:30.6	Happy New Year.
0:35.0	Again, it's not quite a new new year.
0:43.0	But it's a brand spanking, crazy new year.
0:44.3	Yes, it is.
1:00.2	Well, as we jump in and follow from where we left on, talking about the reality of how do we shape a year? How do we shape days, weeks, months,
1:08.7	and this year, in a direction that at least by the end of the year, we can say as Psalm 27 comes to an end, that I did not despair because I believed that I would
1:14.5	see the goodness of God in the land of the living. And that's our desire, that as you think about
1:21.3	what the year 2022 will be, again, may it be that there are just all sorts of good things for you, your family,
1:33.8	your world. But I think we can also say that 2022 is going to be the year of midterm elections.
1:48.9	We already live in a world under immense threat.
1:57.5	I think a threat with regard to the disease of COVID, certainly a bizarre and horrible flu season,
2:03.7	the reality that I think there are multiple threats to democracy. We're living in a fear-based, traumatized era. And there's a lot of despair. I just had a significant conversation
2:15.2	with a good friend who just got fired.
2:20.5	And he, I won't go into the details other than he is a really good man who did really good work,
2:28.4	but didn't resolve the heightened sense of despair that the organization he's with has experienced.
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