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. I'm so happy to be talking with you today.

I am speaking to you from my little front room office in Oxford in the United Kingdom.

And I have been thinking about you lots and I hope that what I have to share today will

be of great encouragement to you. I know that every week during these podcasts particularly

and I don't know if anybody will go back and listen to them after all of this is over,

like it was a bad dream or something. But in my world in Oxford we just got the most

strict lockdown that we could possibly be given last night at midnight. It went into effect.

And so now we pretty much need to stay home, have to have permission to leave only leaving

to exercise or go grocery shopping, which I use a wide, a wide rule to interpret that.

And I think just the language and the demeanor and the temperament is very serious here.

And so I'm taking that to heart and yet it doesn't seem a lot different than it has the

whole few months we've been here. It's just one degree or another of what we are able to do.

But it is a little bit discouraging every time somebody clamps down a little bit harder.

It's kind of like a teenager who the parents say first you know you can do this and then

you can't do that and then you can't do this and then you can't do that. And a lot of times

too much too many rules, too much pressure can have an adverse effect on especially children

and teenagers. And I think that we're just grown up teenagers. So I've been seeking to be

kind of in touch with a lot of friends and family. But I feel like I'm just so blessed.

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