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.

Well hello my friends, it's Sally Clarkson. Welcome to an unusual episode of Life with

Sally and friends, or at home with Sally and friends. And I hope all of you are doing

well. I am sitting in my tiny little study in my Colorado home with piles of things

to sort and books to put up that I haven't gotten to. But I just wanted to give you a tiny

little podcast because of what's all going on in my life. Many of you know that I not only

I'm launching a book on called Help I'm Drowning, Weathering the Storms of Life with Grace

and Hope. And of course you can't launch a book like that unless you're going through

storms of life because otherwise you would have nothing to say to anyone. And so I want

to share a little story with you tonight but also ask you to join me on my launch team.

Many years ago I was you know I was at the height of the demands of my life although it

kind of never has slowed down. But I had two hormonal moody teenagers that I was dealing

with a lot, one a boy, one a girl. And I had my out of the box, precious little boy Nathan

that I was trying to figure out. And he never sat still, there were lights of things going

on in his life. And then I had a toddler, little joy, who wanted attention a lot. She was

extrovert. She loved to talk. And she had nocturnal asthma every single night which means nocturnal

of course is night. And for some reason and we found out later why as many of you have

read about in one of my books but she would gasp and breathe and barely breathe every

single night around one o'clock. And it happened to be a time when clay was gone a lot. Well,

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