Welcome to the Storytellers Live podcast, where everyday women share stories of hope found in Jesus.

I'm Robin, and I am one of your podcast hosts, and we are on summer break.

So we are bringing you six weeks of listener favorites, and this week is Sophie Hudson, who actually aired in the fall of

2021. Her story is about God calling her to something and wrestling with that and eventually following

his lead. We know you will love it, and here is Sophie. Hi, everyone, this is Katie. And before we get to

Sophie's story, I just wanted to let you know that we are so

excited that this week we are now shipping when God shows up discovering God and stories of freedom.

This is an eight-week Bible study that just takes eight of our podcasts, and we really look into

how God showed them what living a life of freedom looks like. You're going to, like I said, hear eight different women, and you're going to hear things about living, living a life of freedom in Christ. You're going to hear about living from freedom from your past. You're going to hear about living in humility and forgiveness and how that brings freedom to you. And let me tell you something. If you are like, I really want to do this,

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this study, that you'll take that step and purchase the Bible study and leader's guide today.

Have a great week.

So this is not the story that I thought I was going to tell.

I was about halfway into working through the other story when this story popped to mind.

And I was like, oh, I don't know that I've ever told that story publicly.

And I know I haven't ever told it on the podcast before.

But the more I thought about it, the more I hoped that maybe this story would be something

that would encourage somebody who finds himself in a similar spot to where I was several

years ago. I am somebody who has always loved to write. I remember when I was in second grade,

I had a dance recital, and I sat down at

the secretary in my parents' living room, and I wrote all about it what would have essentially

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