Welcome to the Storytellers Live podcast, where everyday people share real and personal stories.

Some stories are profound, challenging, and even emotional, while others are more common

and relatable shared

with honesty and humor. All of these stories reveal what God can do in our lives when we

trust in with the details. Thanks for joining us.

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 a bottom line being that God is good. Now, we'd probably all agree that parenting is challenging. Add in multiple children diagnosed with ADHD and some days

you may feel like your home is a circus. Today you'll hear from Amy as she shares God's strategy

for her family when her journey of motherhood didn't go quite as planned. Here she is.

I'm not sure what I'm going to say either. No, I'm just kidding. I actually wrote it down because if y'all know me, I'm super stream of consciousness, and I might get on one tangent one day, and then the next time you talk to me, I'm talking about something different. So I actually wrote down almost every word because I don't trust my memory to actually stay on point and cover what I feel like would be the most helpful and encouraging.

But I have two disclaimers.

First, I'm a horrible storyteller.

You just have to know this.

I come from a long line of awesome storytellers, one of whom is my sister, who's sitting right there, Julie.

And my dad, our dad is an awesome storyteller, and I was actually texting him, and I was like,

oh gosh, I have to, like, talk for 30 minutes straight.

I do better in conversation or interview style, and he was, like, giving me some pointers,

and I was like, yeah, that's the problem.

I go straight to the punchline every time.

Like, I'm just not a good storyteller. So just bear with me as I just kind of share what God's doing. And then the second thing is that y'all will crack up. So those people that know me well are going to, like, roll their eyes. But so I have a lazy eye. And so if you're really close to me, you don't notice it.

And if you're really far away, you don't notice it. But this is, like, the most awkward distance. Because I only use one eye at a time. It's weird. It's complicated. But so if I, if you think I'm looking at you, I may or may not be looking at it. I'm not like trying to

like hone in on you and like convict you of anything. I promise. But, um, but anyway, I am

super excited to be here. I read a book this past year, which is going to make it sound like I

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