Welcome to the Storytellers Live podcast where women share personal stories of God's love.

I'm Robin and I'm here with Katie and Lindy.

And today we are bringing you one of our first stories from a live gathering in a year.

So excited to have those live gatherings back.

Yes. And so today we have Katie from Auburn, Alabama, and we are going to do something a little bit different. As Katie shares her story,

she touches on so many things from parenting special needs children to infidelity in marriage,

to having this ideal of perfectionism and a perfect family and a perfect

plan for her life. And something that she said in the end during the question and answer time was so

powerful that we really want to start there. We want to start with this question. And so we just want

you to know as we start with it that those are the things she's walked through in life. So the

question to her was, how do you

suffer well? What does it look like to walk through so many difficulties? And you're going to

hear her answer, and we do feel like it really sets up her entire story. Everybody's case,

I think the biggest thing is to focus on God. I know when I was in that position, the first thing is with the marriage

side of it, the first thing people worry about is, okay, what can I change about myself, and I want

to be more beautiful, and I want the person to be around me more, and I want them to like me more

or whatever. And I think one thing I've learned is if we can focus on Jesus and becoming more like him,

he will satisfy all those needs that might not be being met by somebody else.

And he will transform us into a different person.

And we don't necessarily need another person to complete us.

And so that was really maybe focusing on myself and my relationship with Jesus and not

trying to fix anything that I couldn't fix. Other people, we can't fix other people, even if we want to.

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