
Surrender to the Now
Becky Allender writes about those times when life feels like a neverending series of tasks, wondering what it would require to pause here, now, and remain grounded in the present moment.
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The Price of Life
Naturally, we all love to remember the happy moments of our lives. It’s not so easy for us to want to remember the difficult and...
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The Blame Game
We blame because we feel we must, but what if blame was no longer required in our series of tasks to complete? How might our...
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Opening My Eyes
All transformation requires disruption. And it seems to me that no one changes because it’s a good idea. We change, if much at all, because someone...
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The Fight
The fight had been ridiculous. Ten minutes after the explosion I couldn’t recall what it had been about and certainly three decades ago I can’t...
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The End of the Battle
If you have begun the work of engaging your stories of harm in pursuit of restoration, you likely know well that the presence of shame...
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Things Must End
Wading through our stories, in all of their glory and heartache, inevitably confronts us with the reality of endings. “Every ending bears some level of...
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How Great Thou Art
Last week on the Allender Center Podcast, we launched a two-part series in which Dan and Becky Allender are reflecting on the nature of grief...
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