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 my friends, it's Sally Clarkson and I am so looking forward to talking with you. Have

you ever, and I know you have, had those weeks maybe those months or days or years, when

you just can't get it together? Well, this week and last week and the week before that,

ever since I got back from Oxford, I have had a hard time getting my act together. I have

lost things because I still haven't totally unpacked all my bags. And why am I not unpacking

all my bags? Well, I could tell you I'm tired, which is true, but I could also tell you

that I have had constant company and I felt like since Clay was so gracious to let me go

be with my granddaughter and be with the kids that I needed to hit the ground running when

I was home. And so I had my leaders and then joy came home and then Joel came home and

then Nathan and his friend came home. And so I have had a constant array of adult children

in and out of friends staying with us in and out of people having catastrophes. How dare

they have catastrophes during my demanding season of life from cancer to knee surgeries,

to broken bones, to broken hearts. And so life, like with you, has just demanded a lot of

me. And sometimes it's easy for me to do podcasts because I have so much in my heart and sometimes

I think I'll just take a nap. But anyway, I'll let to say if you are ever out of control,

I think that I've decided that that is just a part of seasons of life, maybe most of life.

And the goal for us and talking about this book, Dancing with My Father is not to get

total control of your life because if you have that as an illusion, you will never be happy.

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