Hi everyone, welcome to at 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. Thank you so much for joining me.

Hi friends, welcome to at home with Sally. I am sitting in my home with my Darcy Dog right

above me. She sits on my stairs that go up to the bedrooms right behind me because she's

not allowed on the carpet of our living room but she says hello to our and I am Indina Sunday

afternoon with T and my oatmeal muffins that Clay and I shared talked to a couple of my kids

and I am just happy as a as a clam however happy clams are. But anyway I just wanted to say hello

and I'm looking forward to sharing some of what has been in my heart. You know I've gotten a lot

of letters of my birthday and different times lately from precious precious women who have been

through such hard and difficult times. We all the the marathon of life a long years in a fallen

world can wreak havoc for all of us from time to time and I thought you know I want this to be

a place where you can come to find understanding and sympathy but also to find strength and encouragement

and and ideas and truth and help and the Lord so that you can continue thriving in the life

that you feel you need to live. I think that it's so essential for us to one of the most essential

things which I will be talking about today is that we have to be responsible for our own joy, our

own happiness, our own contentment. I wrote an article last week that talked about the fact that

really I had to learn in my Christian life that my responsibility to be content,

my responsibility to be joyful was part of me learning to be mature and learning to have faith.

So I just wanted to talk about that a little bit today. When we look into the world's

issues I think that many people especially in the younger generation are feel hopeless and helpless

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