Hi everyone, welcome to Add Home with Sally. I'm Sally Clarkson and I have the biggest

privilege in the world to be with so many friends from all over the world who join me every

week to listen to my stories, inspiration, biblical encouragement and I am just so glad

that you're here today. Thanks so much for joining me.

Hi everyone, I'm so glad you joined me today and in the next probably ten

Mondays we are going to be doing a new podcast series on the 24 Family Ways,

which you can get from Amazon or our ministry at wholeheart.org or you can find it on my own blog site

at Sally Clarkson.com but I really love doing this. It's really inspiring me and as I mentioned

before the whole reason that Clay and I decided to do these 24 Ways with our children and what I

want to say about it for you today is that whether you are an adult or a teenager or if you're a child

there need to be foundations to your life. I think I've told you the story before of

when our family first went to see the built more. It was this beautiful almost estate in

Asheville, North Carolina and Vanderbilt, one of the sons who moved there. He didn't want to stay

in New York and do all the same kind of mansions that everyone else had done. He moved to a more rural area.

He brought in, he had this vision for developing a community and he brought in

builders and he brought in naturalists who could plant new kinds of trees there and he brought

art from all over the world and he planned to establish a new church there and he brought a library

and he made a place for artists and musicians and basically as I have looked at the built more,

it's often encouraged me because what we can see is that we can build foundations for a house.

The house has to have strong foundations in order to last for years. I'm living right now

in a pretty old house that's either between 165 or 195 years old as well as they can imagine and

it's kind of a shaky old crazy house but it's still standing and when I think of a life

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