First Monday Story- A Second Chance at Life- A Story of Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease :: Kristen Jones :: [Episode 352]
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4.9 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
It's time for our First Monday Story coming from our Trussville, Alabama community group… And, it's the perfect story for "Colitis and Crohn's Awareness week," celebrated the first week of December.
At the age of fifteen, Kristen Jones was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. It was a disease doctors said she would be fighting her entire life. The years that followed were spent being sick then well, taking medications and blood transfusions, only to be re-diagnosed with Crohn's disease as an adult. When told her only way to live was through surgery and wearing an ileostomy bag, Kristen hesitantly agreed. Listen in as she speaks of all the Lord has taught her as the Author of her story.
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| 0:00.0 | in that moment realized like the author of my story had given me a second chance. |
| 0:08.0 | I could not believe that I was about to get a new life. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to the Storytellers Live podcast where everyday women are gathering in homes across the country |
| 0:17.1 | to share stories of the hope found in Jesus. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm Katie Dyn. I'm Robin Cowan. |
| 0:22.3 | And I'm Lindy Walker, and we are your podcast host. And we're back, and we are sailing into |
| 0:29.0 | December. I cannot believe it. It's not before. December 205. No. Are you ready at all? |
| 0:34.8 | No, not at all. Maybe less than ever before. |
| 0:37.4 | I used to shop in October. Yes. What happened to those days? No, not at all. Maybe less than ever before. |
| 0:40.9 | I used to shop in October. Yes. What happened to those days? I put everything off. Welcome to December. |
| 0:45.2 | Welcome to the Storyteller's Live podcast. And you know, I want to remind people as we are entering into December, which is the month of giving, right? |
| 0:55.8 | Would you consider donating to storytellers live? As you guys know, we're a 501c3 and we operate on the support of our donors. |
| 1:05.2 | And through your financial stewardship and giving, then you're allowing for this podcast to be produced. |
| 1:11.5 | You're allowing for our communities to operate and conduct live gatherings and really |
| 1:16.3 | reach women to build community. |
| 1:18.6 | And so literally, these stories are being heard around the world to share the hope found |
| 1:23.7 | in Jesus. |
| 1:24.5 | So that's just a challenge to consider supporting our ministry this month. |
| 1:28.2 | One of my favorite things that we are able to do for our listeners is if you want to donate an |
| 1:33.4 | honor of a story to know that maybe spoke to you this past year of 2025, you can put that |
| 1:38.2 | that you were donating in honor of that storyteller as well. So maybe there's a story that really |
| 1:42.1 | spoke to you. But that storytelling show now, I'll forget that that's there. Yeah. And we notify him. Today, we have Kristen Jones from our |
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