Girlfriends, episode number 376, writing inspired by Scripture with Maureen O'Brien.

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 and family living. This week,

we are talking about writing from

scripture with writer and author and poet Maureen O'Brien. Can't wait to dive into this

inspiring conversation. Let's get going.

Hey, girlfriend, how are you? Thank you so much for being here. I always enjoy connecting with you on the podcast. And this week is no different. You know what, I want to share with you a

personal thing. So this, I'm pre-recording this. So this is a few weeks back now by the time

you're listening to this. But just this past week, my youngest son, Danny, got his driver's license. So this is the youngest out of our eight kids is now a licensed driver. And I was unprepared for just how emotional this was going to be for me. I should, I should know this by now, right, after

going through this drill with eight kids. But I was unprepared for, first of all, how much of a

relief it is to know, like, done with Driver's Ed, because I don't know where you are in your

stage of parenting or if you're a parent, but like, Driver's Ed is uniquely awful. Like,

it is so bad. And here in New Hampshire is required by the state. And it's

expensive and it's time consuming. And there's all these like requirements and hoops you have to

jump through and forms to fill out. And like it's just so exhausting. I hadn't realized just how much

that was weighing on me as part of this process of each kid getting licensed. But, you know, when he kind of

went through this little right of passage and he got his license and I was feeling that as a mom,

it made me remember way back when, like, this podcast was brand new. So going all the way back

over seven years ago. I actually started this podcast more than seven years ago. It's so crazy to think.

But I remember in one of those early episodes, I shared that Danny, who was just a little guy at the time, you know, so yeah, he's 16 now.

So this was when he was nine years old. He had like, you know, just gone and taken a shower without me telling him to.

And I felt like

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