Girlfriends, episode number 364, Hearts of Joy with Lauren Costable.

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, my special guest is Lauren Costabille,

who's doing amazing, beautiful, much-needed work in the world, supporting families with children

with Down syndrome. Can't wait to share her story with you. Let's get going.

Hey, girlfriend, how are you? Thank you so much for being here. I'm excited to connect with you again

right here on the Girlfriend's podcast. So how is Lent? We're in the home stretch. I want to just

encourage you to know, like, you can't fail at Lent. You truly can't. Like, you can reset your Lent right now

and embrace God's plan for you. So I just want to encourage you to know that there is joy and

goodness that God has in store for you, that God has planned for you this Lenton season and

ahead in the days of Easter. So I'm really, really hoping that I can

encourage you right now, wherever you find yourself, however Lent has gone for you or hasn't gone

for you, you can reset right now. I want to encourage you to know that. You can always do that.

There are no rules about it, right? Except the ones you set in your own head. So I want

to just encourage you to know that. So in these last few weeks, as we're kind of heading toward

Easter here, we're getting ready for Holy Week next week's show. We're going to be focused on

Holy Week, some ideas for Holy Week. Just know that God still is calling you closer to him. He's

calling you to grow in relationship with him,

grow in trust in him. And that looks different for every one of us. God has a unique plan and a

unique call for you. So now is an opportunity. If you need to do so, reset your lent starting right

now. Well, I can't wait to share this week's special guest, Lauren Costabile, with you, because she is such a joy and such a source of goodness in the world.

The work she is doing is so important, and yet she has such, she has such a humility and just a beauty about the way that she shares about what she does.

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