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 friends, welcome to January. A new year, I'm trying to decide what I think about this

year. This is Sally Clarkson and I just want to welcome you to Add Home with Sally.

And I'm sitting here on my Sunday afternoon and I was praying thinking about some things

that I thought would be maybe helpful to share with you. I kind of always assume that

maybe whatever I'm going through, you might be going through too. And that's where I

share from. But anyway, it's my desire to encourage you today. I thought my son, Nathan's

poem, if you want to look at it on my Instagram or Facebook page, was hysterical about,

okay, you know, it makes feelings about you last year and going into this year. But anyway,

it was about, it was kind of a comparison of someone breaking up with a girlfriend or

boyfriend. I thought it was hysterical. But anyway, it was about, you know, the kind of

the maybe confused feelings we have about going into this new year. Oh my goodness. What

is ahead? I'm praying and praying that COVID will just leave the universe, especially mine.

But anyway, I just, I feel like sometimes when I get my letters and observe all of you

precious ones, that, you know, what, what we're doing, whatever, wherever you are in life,

you're a single woman, if you're a married woman with no kids or with a thousand kids, or

if you are an older woman who is bearing the latter years of your life and all the different

issues, we are living in a fallen world, a broken world. And sometimes it gets very tiring

to keep your ideals up or, or just to feel like keeping going. And so I thought I might

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