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 to all my friends, it's Sally Clarkson and I welcome you to this space with me today. We are

going to have so much fun and we're going to talk about an aspect of motherhood. We've been going

through the mission of motherhood chapter by chapter and talking about different aspects that

even as there are different cuts to a diamond and they all reflect a different color in the room

if you bring the light to it just right. All of these different aspects of maybe an overview of

what we get to do as moms, the different places where we get to show the reality of God but also

where we get to exercise ourselves and our personality and our skills are depicted in every chapter.

And today we're coming to a chapter that I hope that all of you all will consider. There's

it's called the creative mother opening windows to God's artistry and greatness. It's interesting. I

have had joy home for the past week. My daughter who is studying in Oxford and I mean I'm sorry

in St Andrews and getting her PhD there and we've had two actors of from Hollywood that are Nathan's

friend and Nathan this week sitting at our table and it's given me some new perspective and new

ideas to talk about when I come to this whole area of becoming the mother who opens the windows of

your children's hearts to the artistry of God. But one of the things that they've been my

my adult kids and their adult friends have been talking about at our table has caused me to realize

how important this is to touch people's hearts with these very areas as a matter of fact because

they all live in LA and in Los Angeles and California. They were all talking at dinner the other

night. They just we tend to have dinner out on our deck. It's a it's just a kind of like a covered

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