Girlfriends, episode number 168.

Rock and Roll meets the Faith with author Don Eden Goldstein.

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, I am talking with author Don Eaton Goldstein about her new memoir from Catholic Answers.

Can't wait to get started. Let's go.

Hey, girlfriends. How are you happy Holy Week?

It'll be Holy Week by the time you're listening to this.

You'll have made it almost to the end of another Lent, and I hope it's been a good one for you.

But even if it hasn't been, this is your reminder that you can make Holy Week Holy. Even if you had the cruddiest lent ever and you're disappointed in how you've done, how you've kept up with

what your commitments were at the start, this is a whole new week. This is a whole new opportunity

for you to recommit to how you want to prepare yourself for Easter. So this is your encouragement, your pep talk,

your little note of reality at the start of Holy Week, even if you messed up Lent in any way,

shape, or form. And truly, you can't. Truly, you can't. Jesus is going to rise from the

dead, regardless of what we've accomplished during Lent. You can't earn Easter, right?

So that aside, know this. You can start over, you can start fresh this week, and maybe you've

had an incredible Lent, and you're just going to make this Holy Week the final little push before

Easter. Know that I'm praying for you. I'll be praying for you in these

coming weeks of the Holy Trudium. My listeners here at Girlfriends are truly special to me. And even if

you've never written me a note, even if I don't know that you exist and you're just listening,

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