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 friends, it's Sally Clarkson and I welcome you today to Add Home with Sally and friends.

And I hope that all of you had a great Thanksgiving, those of you who are from the United States

or living in the United States and I hope that all of you who are in the rest of the world

are having a wonderful, heartfelt time getting ready for the holidays for your family and

for your loved ones and other people. And I've been at Oxford thinking a lot about my

family. I can't wait to go home to where we will all be together again and Nathan Clay

had a wonderful Thanksgiving with some friends and we had a house full of people last night.

I'm recording this the day after Thanksgiving. But I know that as I look back on this past

year, I have had so many friends who have had difficulties and even in the past few weeks,

children in car wrecks and children who are prodigals and difficulties with illness and

several friends who have been given bad news about their health and their prospects ahead.

I had a friend who was in a marriage that ended. And so as we come to these holidays,

I think that we need to prepare ourselves but really to make this one of the best

Advent seasons, one of the best holidays that we have ever had, why don't we give the gift

of ourselves, the gift of our time, the gift of our love to the people who are so important to us.

I was walking around today, Joe left to go back to Scotland and I thought, I just need to get

out on a walk. I'm trying to walk my way to not gaining weight over these holidays and all of

you know, I love to walk anyway. And so I was at a local mall here in town in Oxford. There's

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