Girlfriends, episode number 129. Here are the answers to your prayer excuses.

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 in family living. This week, we're

talking about prayer excuses, why we make them, and how we can answer them and make more room

for more prayer in our daily lives. Come join me. Hey, everybody, how are you? Thanks for being here. Thank you for joining me for another episode of the Girlfriends

Podcast. I'm always glad when we can connect in this way. And I'm always glad when you show up and participate.

So thank you for being here. This week we're going to talk about prayer excuses. But before we get

to that, I have this little thing that I want to ask you about. It's been bothering me. And I don't know

if I want to call it a pet peeve or just an observation that's a little bit annoying. But why

do people talk about other people's weight? Okay, background to this topic. It's that I was

recently somewhere and I met somebody who I didn't know who kind of knew me from online or something,

you know, going back away. And she came up to me and said, are you Danielle Bean? And I said,

yes. And she said, oh, wow, have you always looked like this? And I said, yes. I mean, you know,

pretty much. Anyway, which was kind of an odd thing to say. And then she kind of like pulled me aside a little and was like,

no, really. I mean, didn't you, you used to be really, really heavy? I mean, what? I don't know.

And all I could think was, okay, she has me confused with somebody else. I didn't, I've never had any, you know, gigantic weight loss or anything. But also, even if I had, wouldn't that make me feel terrible? I mean, isn't that a stupid thing to say? So, I mean, I just kind of brushed it off. I mean, it did not seriously bother me, but it did leave me thinking,

why do people do that? And I don't know that people think about it enough. And it's always women to other

women. Now, okay, this, that was kind of an extreme example. But other times, other women have said to me,

like, you've lost weight. You've lost weight, or they've told me

you've lost a lot of weight. And at times when I haven't, or I haven't even been trying to,

and it's not an issue for me at that point. And it always feels really uncomfortable. It always

feels just a little weird. Like, why are you

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