Welcome to the Storytellers Live podcast, where everyday women share real and personal stories of encounters with God.

I'm your host Robin, and I'm here with Dawn, Katie, and Lindy.

And at Storytellers Live, our prayer is that you would meet God in a new way through these stories,

that you would know that you're not alone and that walls

would be broken down and community would be built. Today, our storyteller is Addy. That's right.

Robin, Addy spoke at our community group in Auburn, Alabama, and she just shares openly and

honestly her story that began her junior year in high school when she found herself

unexpectedly pregnant.

She talks about the shame that came with that, the disappointment that she had in herself,

and really just how the odds were stacked against her and her now husband.

And I just think that it's going to encourage some parents out there.

I think it's going to encourage some younger people out there,

especially as Addie just ties it all back to God and how he has just redeemed every aspect of her

story. Absolutely. You know, one neat thing about this story that we don't talk about often,

but we get asked about regularly, is how we choose our storytellers. And you're going to hear

in Addie's intro that she talks about when God specifically told her she was going to share

her story at storytellers. But what we got on the back end from the Auburn team is that God

had told them that as well. But for an entire year, they kept wanting to ask her to share.

They kept wanting to ask her.

And every time they would think about asking her, Holy Spirit would say, no, not yet.

It's not time.

And so you'll hear an Addy's story that she talked about finding joy in her story.

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