Standing at the Foot of the Cross (with Laura Phelps)

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

My guest this week is author and mother Laura Phelps. Laura shares her horrific experience of being a mom of kids present during the school shootings in Newtown, CT and her growth in trusting in God in the years since. She offers practical help for those who struggle to understand suffering and encourages all of us to look to the Blessed Mother as an example of embracing the suffering God allows us to experience. Snippet From the Show Three lessons from Our Lady: 1) Say, ‘Yes’ 2) Do whatever God says 3) Stand at the foot of the Cross For episode shownotes visit www.ascensionpress.com/girlfriends.

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0:32.3	Girlfriends, episode number 292 at the foot of the cross with Laura Phelps.
0:40.0	Hello and welcome to girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a
0:45.1	mission to help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy in
0:49.5	family living. This week I have a special new friend and author, Laura Phelps, joining me to talk about her
0:56.1	newest book, Sweet Cross. I can't wait to share this really important and inspiring
1:00.9	conversation with you. Let's get going.
1:09.1	Hey there. How are you? Thanks for being here. I'm really excited to dive into this week's show with you. I've got a new friend. I've got a new friend. Laura Phelps is an author and I have been familiar with her work in the past, but we never had an opportunity to chat before now. But before we dive into that, I want to say thank you to those of you who've
1:27.6	been emailing me, connecting with me on social media all about my new book, Whisper,
1:31.8	finding God in the everyday, letting me know that you're reading it, letting me know the different
1:35.2	ways that you're sharing it in your women's groups and at your parish and in your community.
1:40.0	Really, it's been such a joy for me to hear from you, the ways in which you are finding and experiencing
1:45.6	God in the everyday. So that is such a joy to me. It's such a joy for an author to be able to connect
1:51.6	with readers in real ways once those words start reaching you, reaching your mind, reaching your heart.
1:58.8	And I love that you're reaching out to me and sharing the
2:01.5	different ways that the book is touching you and helping you to reflect a little bit more on
2:05.9	the ways that God is indeed always present, even in the midst of our very busy lives. So if you
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