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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

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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.

This episode is part two of our special couple's storytelling event that was held this summer. In part one, you heard Clay and Sarah Beth share,

and now you'll get to hear from Amanda, one of our other storytellers team members,

and her husband, CJ.

CJ is actually the worship pastor at Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, Alabama.

And Amanda is an incredible mama for,

and we call her our mercy person on our team because

she just loves people so well and praise for them and just sees their God-given potential

and takes time to speak words of encouragement to them. I also should mention that she is a

phenomenal baker. She can make all kinds of cookies and cupcakes and goodies and then decorate them so beautifully.

So she's super talented.

So she and CJ have been married 11 years and they have four kids.

And at the end, you'll get to hear a song that CJ wrote called Place of Freedom.

And Amanda and CJ performed this together live at the event.

And it was incredible.

I will say that because we are complete amateurs at this recording thing and the mics,

the way they were set up and connected, however we had it, the song has some parts of it that are a little bit distorted, especially when both CJ and Amanda are singing together.

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