Life is Hard, but God is Good:: Alice Churnock's Story :: [Episode 331]

StoryTellers Live

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds." James 1:2

Alice Churnock, from our Vestavia, Alabama community group, shares her story of suffering from a bleeding disorder for thirty years, which stamped shame and embarrassment on her soul and ultimately led her to intense anger with God as the complications from her disorder led her to difficulties having children.

However, after experiencing an unexpected and abrupt miscarriage, God met Alice, as only a loving and good Father can, and brought her to a deeper faith and ultimately a healed body. This story will encourage you to know that God can handle your anger and questions, but you must also be ready to listen for His answers.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN:

- God uses pain and trauma to grow your faith more than He uses the blessings He has given you - the blessings are often a byproduct of the pain.

- God is relational, and in a relationship, there is speaking AND listening by BOTH parties.

- Joy is an inner attitude regardless of your circumstances.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	God not only answers Job, but he answers every single one of us.
0:08.1	And in that moment, he answered me, and I've got to be honest, y'all, it wasn't warm and fuzzy.
0:14.6	I was raging against God, and he had words back from me in a loving way that only a father does, a perfect father.
0:26.9	Welcome to the Storytellers Live podcast where everyday women are sharing stories of hope found
0:31.8	in Jesus.
0:32.6	I'm Katie Dunn.
0:33.7	I'm Robin Cowan.
0:34.7	And I'm Wendy Walker.
0:36.1	And we are your podcast hosts, as well as part of the Storytellers Live Ministry, where simple life stories are helping women all over the country increase their faith, find freedom in Christ, and build community among women.
0:48.9	And this is happening in live gatherings all around the country that are meeting in homes.
0:55.2	Today's storyteller is Alice Chernot from our Vestavia gathering right here in Birmingham.
1:00.7	And, you know, this may be one of the most uniquely told stories we have ever had.
1:06.2	And Katie, I think you're going to talk about this, but that's because Alice is a therapist.
1:09.6	And so she tells her
1:11.4	story from two different perspectives. I was fascinated. I know today we get to hear a story from
1:16.8	someone who listens to stories for a living. And she references that as well. Alice has been a
1:21.7	counselor for 20 years. And I'm sure for most of her clients, they probably do not know this
1:27.3	story about her. And that's one of the reasons why I love storyteller so much is because it does break down walls and build community with authentic, raw, real, vulnerable stories. Alice shares her story really of living with a bleeding disorder for 30 years and how that disorder not only led to shame and embarrassment, but also
1:46.2	struggles with infertility and then ultimately just the devastation of a miscarriage. And like
1:51.4	our past two storytellers, God really met Alice in his word through the story of Job, as you're
1:57.0	going to hear. So get ready to find joy and healing through Alice's story.
2:01.6	Yes, and our Patreon insiders are getting more of Alice in a story within the story episode with
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