Friendship Cycles, Part 2

Note: This episode contains some explicit language; listener
discretion is advised.


After a relationship has ruptured, can there be repair? Dan and
Rachael continue to talk through the cycle of friendship and the
difficult process of reconciling a cherished friendship gone
awry.


Dan asks, “How do you go how you trust someone who's already
harmed you to open the door to desire? Because to do that feels
like you're now taking on way more than the original wound.
You're taking on that shame on you first time for hurting me,
shame on me the second time that I actually opened myself to
further harm by wishing and opening the door to reconciliation.”


Rachael shares, “It really does take a radical kind of hope. It
takes a radical kind of vulnerability, humility, patience.”


Listen as they talk through their personal experiences of rupture
and repair, and the wisdom we can find in Romans 12 to “be joyful
in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer,” as we move
toward reconciliation and restoration.