Welcome to the storyteller's live podcast where everyday people share real and personal stories.

Some are profound and challenging, while others are more common and relatable, shared with honesty and humor.

But all of these stories reveal what God can do in our lives when we trust him with the details.

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Hi, everyone. This is your host, Kelly, from the Storytellers Live team. On each episode, a different woman shares her story often in a live setting with the bottom line being that God is good. Our storyteller today is Molly. Molly lived life with the goal of being perfect, or at least good enough. But her life and mindset were turned

upside down when an illness came on that for a season kept her in bed. During that time, she felt

trapped literally in her bed and in her situation, but the Lord used that time to help her find

freedom in several areas of her life, most unexpectedly, to break free from the pressures of perfection.

Here's Molly.

Well, I can honestly say that I'm excited.

That is not what I would have said even three days ago.

So, yes, Robin, in early January, got just really impressed from my heart that he was ready

for me to share my story again.

And so I heard it, and I was like, okay.

And then right soon after that, storyteller sent out this email.

And it was a survey.

Some many of you, I'm sure, saw the survey or whatever.

It was a survey.

And at the bottom of the survey, it said, would you be willing to share your story? And I looked at it, and I'm like, oh, I think I'll just close that right back up. I was finished the whole survey, and then it got to that question, and I said, I'm going to close that page. I'm not going to do anything there. And so, but it really just kept on my heart and then just a couple of days

later, Bobbin called. And so, but it really just kept on my heart, and then just a couple of days later,

Bobbin called.

And I literally just kind of had to giggle because I was like, God, you've always worked a

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