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.

Hello my friends, welcome to Add Home with Sally and friends. I hope you're doing

okay. I was just thinking yesterday about some of the hidden pressures that

we're feeling. Sometimes I feel like I am depleted really deeply inside and because I care

for my family I think I don't want to let them know how down I'm feeling or how tired

or whatever. And yet we can also feel so alienated and invisible in the midst of the continuous

day by day staying home, being out of our normal routines, not having church or friends

or community or activities or as much fun as we normally did, outlets, not having people

in our lives. And I think that puts a lot of pressure on the people that are in our

lives, that are family at home. Did you know, I know you know this, but no one person,

not your best friend, not your family, not your husband. No one can meet all of the needs.

God meant for us to meet our needs by dispersing our needs amongst many people and many situations

and much community. And so I've really been praying for people. I've been in the process

of meeting with my own kids and seeing some stress, my adult children that are many of

them are your age or older than some of you, younger than some of you, but they are adults

who carry lots of different burdens. And so I thought whatever we are experiencing in our

home in the Clarkson home is probably a little bit of what you are also experiencing. So

I just wanted to do in the middle of everything else in the middle of book launch, in the middle

of life, in the middle of I'm working on a lot of projects right now and on some things

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