Girlfriends, episode number 359.

Last minute ideas for Lent.

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 are talking about Lent because ready or not, here it is.

Here it comes tomorrow. By the time this episode publishes, it's going to be the day before

Ash Wednesday, and we are diving in. Can't wait to get started. Let's go.

Hey, girlfriend. Thank you so much for being here.

Thanks for showing up for another episode of the Girlfriend's podcast.

Thrilled that you are joining me here.

So let's talk about Lent.

Can you believe it is here?

And you know what?

I think we sometimes give ourselves all kinds of anxiety. Last year,

I had Father Mark Mary Ames on to talk about Lent at the start of Lent. And I just loved his

approach where he seemed to have just the perfect balance. And I'm going to link to this one in the

show notes, because if you haven't heard this conversation, you really should go back and listen

to it. He just had the perfect balance between not giving yourself a

pass and being tough on yourself a little bit at the start of Lent and making your plans for Lent,

but not killing yourself, right? Not taking on so many things and setting impossible goals for

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