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. And hi, this is Sally trying to start this podcast with you. And I am sitting

here with my two friends with Misty and Kristen. And we talk so much in between the podcast,

we will never get the podcast done because we're having too much fun. And now we've had

coffee. And be aware. And if you could really be and listen, be with us and listen to the

in between talks, those are worth more than anything. But today we're going to talk about something

that is one of my favorite subjects in the world because it is one of the most fulfilling

experiences of my life. We're learning so much about it from watching you have your friendships

with your kids. So I'm appreciating that a lot. Yes. So the subject is to love friendships

with our children. Friendships with our children. You know, I'm going to step out and limb

here and say that I think that I'm actually writing a book about this right now. But I think

that the most profound influence in any area of life takes place through relationship. And when

you love someone well and when you love them completely and when you love them with words and

when you love them with service and when they feel absolutely as though they can just be surrounded

and delighted and dance in the love that you have for them, you will win their heart. You will

win them for the Lord. You will win them for whatever love is the foundation, the oxygen that we

were created to breathe. It's why God talks so much about love. Kristen's going to talk about that

in a minute. But what I want to kind of say at the beginning and you know, I don't help, I don't

see anyone's toes. But Clay and I wrote, Clay mainly wrote this book, but we had a philosophy of

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