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, it's Sally and I am in a hurry to talk to you today because I have exactly

26 minutes until my bread comes out. I am actually making some cinnamon rolls and

for when Sarah and Joy and Lillian come and then Joy arrives and then Joel arrives

and then Nathan arrives with two friends and so I made a whole bunch of bread and it's

any oven cooking and I can't ever cook it so I have to get this done today. Well I'm

a little bit nervous today about talking about this chapter because though I have such

deep beliefs about it and sometimes I even forget that other people have never heard

some of this before and maybe don't believe the same way. But I'm going to be talking

today about how beautiful motherhood is by design and of course within this chapter I

will be addressing just a little bit because we'll save some of it for the next chapter.

But that the design that God had in mind before the fall when God created he was at his heart

a father. He was a father who created a place for his children. He was a father who pursued

his children. He clothed them even after they sanded and already had a plan to save

them. He pursued them through the Old Testament, the New Testament. He gave them, he made

them a people, he gave them a place. He provided food. He listened to their prayers. He gave

them instructions. He disciplined them and then finally ultimately and I think the reason

why the prodigal son's story is so beautiful is that it really is a picture of what Jesus

was for us. We were the prodigals. We were the ones who are bellying saying I can go my

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