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.

Hello my friends, how are you? Oh my goodness, I have had so many friends in Texas on my mind

and I know that life has been hard for so many of you. You've lost, lost a week but also

lost the power, some of you have floods in your home. I know Oklahoma, different parts in the

south and I know that difficulties are going on all over the world. And so I'm taking a little

bit of a break. I'm trying to figure out the next few weeks. It seems like so many weeks in the

past year. One of the reasons I did for podcasts a week for my wonderful audience for about six

months in COVID is I thought I just want to be an encouragement to them until COVID is over.

Thinking surely it would be over in about six months. But then when I moved to Oxford,

I had to go down to two a month or two a week. And so I do think about you and I have wondered

though, I wonder what next week holds. It does seem like this has been, if we look at the

swirl of history a particular time. Like there have been many other times in history

but of devastation, of difficulty, of out of control. And so I just wanted to tell you a tiny

little story that happened to me in the past couple of weeks because I was thinking, what should

I write about or what should I talk about today because having lived through hospitalizations

and honestly we had a fire in our house and when I lived in Vienna and you know all these

fire trucks came and we were trying to communicate to them in German and I've had two homes where

we had a flood and it ruined our floors and you know that moving 19 times, we've had fires

here in the mountains where people have had to evacuate and one time we had to evacuate

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