Hi, my name is Sally Clarkson and I'm so glad you joined me at my podcast today at Home

with Sally. My sweet friend, Chris and Kills, joining me in this space, and we hope that

we'll bring a smile to your heart and inspiration how to live an intentional life and especially

to encourage you to find joy along the way and to know how deeply you're loved by God.

Thanks for joining us.

Hi to all my sweet friends. This is Sally Clarkson with at Home with Sally and friends and

I'm just so excited to be able to talk with you today. I enjoy my podcasts. I enjoy

thinking of me sitting here with you having a cup of tea. I like, I get so many messages

from women who say they're either washing dishes and listening to me or running or listening

in the car. I just love it that we can all be in our home and still have friends out

there in cyberspace that really feel like friends. I just really appreciate it when you

let me hear from you and when you enjoy the podcast. I love Christmas season. I love the

fact that we can celebrate. I really have learned to believe over the years that sometimes

celebration and learning to see with the eyes of our heart to see beyond the present circumstances,

learning to take those people into our lives and learning how to love them because of the

way we've been loved is a way that we dispel darkness and all of us are at a place where

we need hope in life. So I'm looking so forward to being with you this coming Thursday night.

I am going to have a life-giving Christmas tea with Sally. One of the reasons I did this,

I think I explained it last week, and I just had this wonderful party in my home over

10 years. We've been having this party with, there's a group of very sweet friends who

have helped me for many years in my conferences and with my ministry and in my Bible studies.

They've traveled, they've carried books, they've met with women, they've helped me with my

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