Girlfriends, episode number 386, standing on the rock with Father Dwight Long and Necker.

Hey, girlfriend, welcome to the newest episode of the Girlfriends Podcast.

So glad you are joining me here.

Today we have our special guest, Father Dwight Longannecker, who is joining us.

He's going to be part of an upcoming event over at Good Catholic, where we're going to be talking about finding peace in political times, and I'll let him share a little bit more about that with you in just a moment.

But before we dive into that interview, I just wanted to give a little update here at the start.

You know, back at the beginning of the year, those of you who are long time or somewhat

long time listeners might remember the episode we did that was called 23 Things for

2023.

And that was an episode in which I shared ideas for not necessarily New Year's resolutions,

but small-ish goals for the coming year. Some of them

bigger than others. And, you know, this is very much in keeping with kind of the mini habits that

we talked about a few shows back. And I thought I should be checking back in because really,

we should be looking at these lists. You know, so I wrote out a list and I shared a list of 23 things.

Many of you reached out with your own lists and shared with me your 23 things for

23, kind of broke it down into categories of like work, health, relationships, those kinds of

things.

And I thought, well, we should really be looking at this quarterly and seeing how we're doing,

right, keeping ourselves on track with our 23 things. And I just, there were many things I needed

a reminder of. So the things that I needed to be reminded of included going on a pilgrimage,

I really want to do that. And so I'm just, I'm kind of adding that to my things

that I'm thinking about right now. And that doesn't have to be a big deal, but kind of making a

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