Girlfriends, episode number 258. Ready, set 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 your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy and family living.

This week, we are giving a pep talk on Lent. Are you ready to get started? Let's go.

Hey, girlfriends, how are you? Thanks for being here. Welcome to any new listeners who happen to be joining us for the first time this week. Thrilled you're here. Glad you're giving us a chance. I hope you're

going to want to stay a while. And thank you to those of you who are joining me again, or many times over, or every

week. I'm so grateful for your presence here in all the ways you encourage and support what we do

here at Girlfriends. Every one of you who's listening right now is a valued and important member

of the Girlfriends community. I'm so grateful that you are here. So how are you? Here in New Hampshire,

we are buried in snow today. We got about 10 inches overnight and it's feeling kind of cozy. I'm

remembering that there's a Scandinavian saying, I think it's something like there's no such

thing as bad weather, just bad clothing. So if you're not enjoying the current weather,

maybe you need to wear something different, a warmer coat or some waterproof boots or a snug

cap. I was just thinking about that today because I think, you know, I might disagree. I think

they're actually when you're standing like in blizzard kind of conditions and the

winds blowing in your face and it's negative, you know, temperatures outside that it kind of feels like

bad weather, even if you're wearing good clothing. I don't know. But I like the idea behind that saying

that there's no such thing as bad weather. And, you know, we can apply that in

different ways to our lives. Like there's no such thing as bad circumstances. We need to adjust

the way that we're responding to them or the way that we're framing them in our minds,

which can really have a big impact in how we are experiencing them. So whether you're a snow person or not,

I just wanted to share that little thought with you here today. My boss, Father Jim Phelan at

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