Saying Yes to God's Plan
Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)
Danielle Bean
4.9 • 810 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Gracie Jagla joins us to share her journey as a Catholic children’s author and the inspiration behind her latest book, When Mary Says Yes. She discusses the importance of teaching children about Mary and the significance of saying yes to God’s call. Gracie also reflects on her personal relationship with Mary, the challenges of balancing motherhood with her writing career, and the launch of her podcast, 'Cuddle Up,' which features read-alouds of children’s books by Catholic authors. The discussion highlights the joy of nurturing faith in children through storytelling and prayer.
Takeaways
* Mary's fiat is not just a single moment but a series of small yeses throughout her life.
* Gracie’s personal relationship with Mary deepened as she became a mother.
* The Hail Mary can be a source of comfort during challenging parenting moments.
* Teaching children about Mary can be integrated into daily family life through prayer and storytelling.
* The Cuddle Up podcast aims to provide engaging read-alouds for children and families.
* Balancing work and family requires intentional time management and self-care.
* Gracie emphasizes the importance of making religious practices enjoyable for children.
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| 0:00.0 | Girlfriends, episode number 459, saying yes to God's plan with Gracie Jagla. |
| 0:09.7 | 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. |
| 0:16.0 | Know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy and family living. |
| 0:19.8 | This week, we are talking with special |
| 0:21.5 | guest, Gracie Jagla, of its children's book author, about saying yes to God's plan. Can't wait to get |
| 0:28.0 | started. Let's go. Hey, girlfriend, how are you? Thank you so much for being here. Thrilled to be able to connect through the podcast again. If you are a first time listener or an occasional listener, I just want to say welcome. I'm thrilled that you are checking us out and I hope you're going to want to stick around. If you're an all the time listener, you know I love you. I appreciate you. I'm so grateful that we're here connecting again. We do have a special |
| 0:55.8 | guest, Gracie Jagla, joining us in a little bit here. And she's going to be talking about saying |
| 1:00.0 | yes to God's plan. And truly, this is what it's about, right? This is what it's all about. If we can just |
| 1:07.4 | learn to accept God's plan for our lives, to say yes without having to know all of the |
| 1:13.9 | details and know exactly how all of it's going to work out before we can say yes, to just trust in |
| 1:20.2 | God's goodness, to trust in his plan for our lives. This is truly the struggle and this is a common |
| 1:26.4 | struggle. So if you are there on the |
| 1:28.7 | struggle bus with like, I feel like I can't trust God or I'm struggling with trusting God, |
| 1:34.3 | know that you're not alone in that. We can look to the saints, for examples, and we can pray to |
| 1:38.6 | the saints for encouragement, ask them to pray for us that will have the grace to be able to say yes to God's plan. But it can be so hard |
| 1:46.2 | sometimes. It's only human to want to know all the details and want to know exactly how everything's |
| 1:50.9 | going to turn out. I sometimes find myself wanting to pray those words, they will be done, Lord, |
| 1:55.0 | but like tell me that it's all going to work out. Like show me how it's all going to work out in the end. |
| 1:59.9 | Like I would like that information, |
| 2:01.7 | you know? But God promises us our daily bread. That's it. I sometimes want all the bread for like |
| 2:09.3 | months, years in advance. I want to see exactly when it's coming and how it's coming so that I can |
| 2:14.3 | know and I can feel secure. But because he loves us and he wants to encourage us to |
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