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

Today we have Tate. And Tate is from Vestavia, which is where we are. And she is a friend and we've all known her for a little while. And so something really fun about Tate is that her sister-in-law actually

shared a few weeks ago. So if you listen to Emily, three promises from God, then I always

think it's interesting to know when people are connected. And so they're sisters in law. So they're,

and they're back to back, but pretty close in the podcast. And Tate has such a beautiful story of restoration in her marriage through addiction.

And those are two things, I mean, all the time we get requests on stories about marriage and addiction.

This is both.

And God did a beautiful redemption story.

He did.

So we hope that it really speaks to you today. And here's

Tate's story. Friends, we are so excited to tell you that we have a little special surprise on our

storytellers live community, which for those of you that have joined, we are so, so thankful. I can tell

you that I constantly have ideas running through my head of like, oh, we should

add this and this would be so fun and this is a fun bonus surprise. So if it's something you've been

thinking about, this is the time to join right now because we do. We have a little bonus coming

your way this week. That is, we are doing a Christmas episode in a few weeks with our friend Anna Nash,

and she has just

written a book called Christmas Matters, and she has given us an Advent calendar that goes with

the book, as well as the introduction to her book on audio, strictly for you, our Storytellers

Live community on Patreon. So we are going to drop that today. And that way, if you want to read the book,

it's amazing for Christmas, for the Advent season. And you can start because today's December

2nd. It actually will have started yesterday, but you're only one day behind. And so you can find

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