Hey friends, welcome to Girls Night. I'm Stephanie Maywelsen and I am so happy that you're

here. Each week I have a girlfriend over and we talk through one of the biggest questions

we have about our lives as women. We're talking about friendships and faith and relationships

and self-confidence, about our calling in life and how to live every bit of our lives

to the absolute full. Life is so much better and easier and absolutely more fun when we navigate

it together as girlfriends and I cannot wait to get started. In today's episode, we're

talking to my sweet friend, Marie Co. Clark. Marie is an amazing writer who writes about

hard questions, hope, and Holy Spirit over on her blog, MarieCoClark.com. Her writing

is deep and it's real and it always makes me cry in the very best way. But she tells

the truth about life with pinches of humor and wit and a little bit of sarcasm that

leaves you laughing while you're crying, it is just the best. In friends, I am super

excited to share this conversation with you. So here's the thing, we love our people,

right? And we want to be there for them, especially when they're going through something really

hard. But if you're anything like me, you're not always exactly sure how to do that. When

something bad happens, I'm always afraid I'm going to say the wrong thing or do the wrong

thing or get in the way when this person really needs a space. I want to be present and

be there for them, but I also don't want to bother them. I want to send them something

to show them in some tangible way that they're not alone, but I'm never exactly sure what

to send. I just feel a little lost for what to do when my people are going through something

hard. That's why I love this episode so much. Because from the perspective of someone

who's recently been there, recently gone through something really hard in her own life,

Mari teaches us how to respond. Friends, this episode is going to make you laugh and it's

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