Girlfriends, episode number 351. How to Find Peace in Advent. 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 is a woman so you can find

peace, balance, and joy and family living. This week we are talking about finding peace in

Advent. Is that even possible during these busy weeks leading up to Christmas? We're going to talk

about it. Let's get started.

Hey, girlfriend, how are you? Thank you so much for being here. I am excited to connect with you about this topic, finding peace in Advent, because this is such a busy and packed time of year.

So busy that you might even feel like peace is impossible. Like you just kind of,

I know I've done this certain years where I'm like, it's just going to be crazy and I just need

to deal with it and my life's going to be chaos and in the end we'll survive it. You know,

kind of like gritting your teeth to kind of get through the holiday season. Well, I don't, I don't think that's the best. I mean, some years you might have to, you know, kind of like gritting your teeth to kind of get through the holiday season. Well,

I don't think that's the best. I mean, some years, you might have to, you know, do that a little bit,

rally a little bit, get through it a little bit. But God wants for you to have peace, especially this

time of year. So peace, even if it might feel very far away, I'm going to be sharing some ideas for some ways that we can all find a little more peace, especially during the Advent season. And peace is actually a theme that

we're focused on during the month of December in the girlfriends community. So every month,

we focus on a different virtue, a different theme, something that we want to kind of cultivate

in our lives for that

month. And we're actually using a book that I wrote many years ago with my good friend,

Elizabeth Foss, called Small Steps for Catholic Moms. It's published by Ave Maria Press, and it's a day

by day kind of devotional where there's one page for every day. And every day, there's a prompt for thinking. It's like a quote

from a saint or a quote from scripture, a prompt toward prayer, and then an action item, sort of a

suggestion. And when we put together that book, Elizabeth and I sat down and we decided on different

themes for each month. And I've loved being able to focus on those themes just in my everyday life, just

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