Cultivating Deep Friendships Through Teatime Discipleship
Life with Sally
Sally Clarkson
4.9 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
We all long for kindred spirits — those with whom we could spend hours dreaming, laughing, and sharing our heart's troubles. But many people I know struggle to find those kindred spirits. Living our busy lives, we hope that lifelong friendships will fall into our lap, or come knocking at our front door. But over many years of struggling with loneliness myself, I've found that the best way to cultivate a true, deep-rooted friendship is to commit to seeking them out, intentionally going out of our way to invite a new friend over for a cup of tea and a deep discussion.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to Add Home with Sally. I'm Sally Clarkson and I have the biggest |
| 0:13.0 | privilege in the world to be with so many friends from all over the world who join me every |
| 0:18.6 | week to listen to my stories, inspiration, biblical encouragement and I am just so glad |
| 0:24.6 | that you're here today. Thanks so much for joining me. |
| 0:36.6 | Good afternoon to all of my friends, at least it's afternoon for me and this is one of my |
| 0:43.6 | very favorite things to talk about ever in the whole wide world and today we are discussing |
| 0:52.6 | tea time discipleship, the power of one on one from my book The Life Giving Table and I believe |
| 0:59.1 | this is chapter 10 and I know that now we are living in a time of many coffee shops and there's |
| 1:07.9 | every kind of brand in the world but when I first learned the principle of the importance of tea time |
| 1:14.8 | discipleship I was very young, let me see it was probably 32 years ago, maybe it was 31 or 30 years ago |
| 1:25.3 | and I was living in Vienna, Austria and if you could picture with me everyone of course spoke |
| 1:34.8 | German and it was a different kind of German than in Germany and I was in language school, I was |
| 1:42.3 | living with a couple of wonderful women and one of them was very depressed because she was lonely |
| 1:48.3 | living so far away from her family and I was also working with a lot of people who were just |
| 1:54.8 | learning the language traveling in Eastern Europe, having stressful lives and so in this particular |
| 2:01.3 | day that I'm going to tell you about I was really in need of a friend, I had been in German school |
| 2:09.8 | in Austria of course because people are from every kind of background in the world, they might be from China |
| 2:16.8 | and Russia and wherever South America in the Middle East and no one spoke the same language, the teachers only |
| 2:27.8 | spoke German and you had to begin learning German from somebody who was speaking German without anyone to explain English to you |
| 2:34.8 | and so it's kind of one of those mind stretches that happens in all the different foreign countries where we learn our language |
| 2:43.8 | and so I was kind of thinking oh to have a friend, to have someone to talk to and to have someone to talk to in English |
| 2:52.8 | so that they can understand me, so I'm going to set it up there but I wanted to read you a couple of quotes |
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