The Transformative Journey of Pilgrimage with Brad & Rita Berglund
The Allender Center Podcast
The Allender Center
4.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we delve into the ancient practice of pilgrimage, a ritual journey that takes a person on a quest for new and deeper understanding of themselves, others, or a higher purpose. Unlike a typical trip or vacation, a pilgrimage has a deliberate and intentional start, a journey of transformation, and a meaningful return to daily life.
Brad and Rita Berglund, pilgrimage travel guides with Illuminated Journeys, share their story of how a life-altering event in their family led them on a transformative journey through pilgrimage. After their four-year-old son's devastating diagnosis in 1989, they discovered that all of life is a pilgrimage. Listen as they vulnerably share how pilgrimage helped them find meaning and redemption in the midst of their grief. Their experience inspired them to become guides, helping others on their journey of self-discovery and healing.
Discover the transformative power of pilgrimage and how to incorporate it into your daily life. Join us in this episode as we explore the potential of pilgrimage and how it can help you find new meaning and purpose in your life.
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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. |
| 0:29.1 | Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. I and my wife, Becky, we are going on a pilgrimage this June. And there is an immense amount of intrigue, excitement, |
| 0:44.6 | some degree of confusion, and some not fear per se, but a sense of the weight of what a true |
| 0:53.8 | pilgrimage holds. So I have the immense pleasure of having on |
| 0:59.4 | today, Rita and Brad Berglon, who are leading this amazing pilgrimage to the Republic of Georgia. |
| 1:09.1 | So, Brad, Rita, thank you for joining me. And let me just say, |
| 1:14.6 | Rita, is a therapist in Denver, a spiritual director, and Brad as well, spiritual director, |
| 1:21.8 | and retreat leader and both amazing musicians, but mostly just really delightful human beings. |
| 1:30.9 | So welcome, and thank you for joining me on this conversation. |
| 1:36.7 | Thank you, Dan. |
| 1:39.0 | Well, as we begin, I just would love for our audience to get a sense of, look, when we had this |
| 1:47.6 | conversation, we were at an organization that we have both been part of for almost 20 years, |
| 1:54.2 | and that is the ICAP, the Institute of Christian Alliance on Prostitution. |
| 1:59.9 | We were at a conference together, |
| 2:02.3 | and you were in a conversation with dear friends of ours from the Philippines about a trip, |
| 2:08.6 | a supposed trip that you were about to go on. Becky and I walked up and began to hear a little |
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