Girlfriends, episode number 91, Small Ways to Pray All Day.

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, we're talking about small ways to learn how to pray all day, and I can't wait to connect with you on this important topic for busy women everywhere.

Let's get going.

Hey, girlfriends, welcome to another episode. Thanks for being here. I'm glad you're with me this week. I'm actually pre-recording this several days before it will be shared because I'm going to be traveling a bit. This coming weekend, my husband and I are going to a friend's wedding. So please pray for Jeff and Krista, who are getting

married this weekend, good friends of ours. So we're going to be traveling for that. And then after

that, I'm going to be in France for a little bit for my own work. And that kind of takes me over the

days when I normally would record the podcast. So I'm not counting on having time to record

during those travel days. So just working a little bit ahead here. And I'm not counting on having time to record during those travel days. So just working a

little bit ahead here and I'm thinking about prayer. I want to share about real life prayer.

We talk about it a lot here on the podcast and talk about the challenge that it is.

Talk about ways to make prayer actually happen in your life and the importance of setting time

apart for it.

And that's part of what I want to address here this week.

That whole thing where we're tempted to say as busy wives and mothers and I've said it too,

that my life is a prayer, right?

My whole life is a prayer.

I don't need to set aside time for prayer.

My whole life is a prayer.

And yes, I get that. Oftentimes, our work can be a prayer. But I think sometimes when we're saying that, it's a cop-out. I think sometimes it's an excuse. Sometimes we feel really busy and it feels like a burden that is being placed upon us to also have to have any kind of a meaningful spiritual life on top of everything else that we're doing.

So we can say, well, my whole life's a prayer, even if we never gave a thought to God from,

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