Girlfriends, episode number 352. How to Fall in Love with Your Catholic Faith with Sarah Swofford.

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 you're worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy and family living. This week, we talk with

special guest Sarah Swofford about her new series, What We Believe. Can't wait to share this

special conversation with you. Let's get going.

Hey, girlfriend. How are you? Glad you are joining me here today. So glad we're able to connect

here shortly before Christmas. How fun that we're so close to Christmas. And, you know, I always remember,

especially this time of year, I remember how my grandmother growing up, my dad's mom, she used to say,

it's always Christmas. It's so funny because that really stood out to me. I didn't know her

very well. She lived in California. I grew up in New Hampshire. So we saw her a few times a year,

but she was very crafty and she was always sewing little things, making like little ornaments

for Christmas. She was always making things for Christmas

stockings and little stuffed animals. And I remember her just saying that. More than once,

I heard her say, it's always Christmas. And that didn't make sense to me as a kid, you know,

because Christmas is forever away. Like, you're always waiting for Christmas and it seems like

I'll never come.

But as I've gotten older, I start to realize, oh my gosh, Grand Mair was right.

It is always Christmas. Every time I turn around, it's Christmas. And it's just the passage of time that kind of you feel, you experience it differently as we grow older. So anyway, it's always

Christmas, but it truly is almost Christmas. So I hope

your Advent has been going well. I'm excited to share this special conversation with you here today

with Sarah Swofford, who is a dear sister of the heart, a friend that I made years ago when I was

filming Momenipotent. She was a part of that series. And I love the chance to get

to know her and we've kept in touch in the years since then. And you know what this is part of what

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