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Turning Awful Into Amazing: Laurie Brooker's Story :: [Episode 339]

StoryTellers Live

StoryTellers Live

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9611 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Life can change in an instant. And, in that moment, the illusion of control can either take you down a path of fear and worry or a path of surrender and peace.

 

In today's podcast, Laurie Brooker, from our community group in Trussville, Alabama, shares her story of how the Lord guided her to trust His sovereign plan as He strengthened and upheld her through the loss of her husband and a cancer diagnosis of her own (all in the same year). Laurie will courageously remind you that while life can sometimes place unwanted titles on you, God can bring joy out of the pain and goodness into your story.
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Verse of the Week:

Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

 

Challenge of the Week:

Laurie spoke often of how her community surrounded her in the suffering her family was experiencing. What can you do for someone who is struggling this week? Be the hands and feet of Christ to them!

 

Listen to a similar story: Lori Anderson- Ep. 75: "The Transforming Power of Grief"

 

Learn more about our Sustain the Stories Campaign and how to become a Story Champion by a recurring donation or simply give once in honor of Laurie and our past storytellers!!

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Young widow, cancer survivor, second wife, stepmom, those were not my titles that I would have ever given in my story.

0:10.8

But those titles have given me an unwavering trust in God.

0:14.1

And it's given me like a real life lived out experience of how God can just take something that just seems so awful and just work it into something

0:22.6

amazing.

0:24.6

Welcome to the Storytellers Live podcast where everyday women are gathering in homes across the

0:29.6

country to share stories of the hope found in Jesus.

0:33.0

I'm Katie Dine.

0:34.0

I'm Robin Cowan.

0:35.1

And I'm Lindy Walker.

0:36.3

And we are your podcast host. We have a great story for

0:41.0

y'all today and we are so excited that we are going to kick this off with a review from Laura

0:45.9

Lee who lives in Hoover, Alabama. She is 35 years old married with two kids and she writes,

0:52.1

I've been listening to your podcast for a long time,

0:54.7

and it has been life-changing for me. God is doing amazing things through you guys. It's given me

1:00.4

the courage to share my story. I've listened to a few that are similar, and it brought me to tears

1:06.0

just knowing that I am not alone. Our God is so good, and I want his glory and goodness to be shown.

1:12.7

Thank you so much.

1:13.9

Laura Lee, you have no idea what this means to us and just the encouragement that it gives us to know

1:19.2

that you guys are being impacted by the power of story and by the hope that is only found in Jesus

1:26.1

and his presence in your life. And so thank you. You can simply write a review on any place that you listen to podcasts. And really, if you rate and review, it helps other people find us because of all the algorithms, logarithms, this, that and the other, that drives technology. So take a minute and help us out. Give us a like on social media.

1:45.1

Give us a share, a follow. But it does help the ministry. Absolutely. And I appreciate that she basically

1:50.5

summed up our entire ministry. Absolutely. And so the challenge from last week. She said she was sharing

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