Girlfriends, episode number 314, Five Ways to Make Time for God.

Hello and welcome to Girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a mission

to help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy and family living.

This week we're talking about making time for God. It's such an

important topic. I can't wait to dive into it with you. I've got five ways I'm going to share.

Let's get started.

Hey, girlfriend. How are you glad to be connecting with you here on the podcast once again?

If you're a first-time listener, welcome to the Girlfriend's podcast.

I'm excited that you're here giving us a try, and I hope you're going to like what we share here and want to come back.

If you're a long time or sometime listener, welcome back.

You know I appreciate you and I love being

able to share with you right here on the podcast every week. And speaking of making connections,

I just recently had the happy experience of returning to the Los Angeles Religious Education

Congress, which was all virtual last year. And so it's been a good while since I was able to be at that.

For anyone not familiar with it, it's a giant conference that takes place in Anaheim each year.

And it usually has, you know, about 15,000 people. And I've always loved going.

Whatever Catholic publication workplace I happen to work for, I mean, usually they're going.

So I've been attending these for many years now. And what I love is the gathering together of so many

people connected in their Catholic faith. Of course, it's a here comes everybody kind of moment

in the Catholic Church. But that is part of the experience for sure. And I've always loved being able to make

in-person connections there. And so this time I was attending for my work with Catholic Mom

over at Catholic Mom.com as part of Holy Cross Family Ministries. And it really was, even though I've

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