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, it's Sally Clarkson and I am so excited to be with you today. I feel

like almost like you're my family. I have loved doing podcasts over the past years and

it's opened up a whole new sense of fellowship with me with a lot of you and many of you

send me letters and something that I've really been enjoying doing lately is doing the

tea times. I have offered several tea times with people as a giveaway and I just had the

most delightful times this week talking with women and hearing their hearts and hearing

their backgrounds and so I just want you to know that I hope and pray that this podcast

is encouraging to you and the things that we cover here are also encouraging and it's

just that I'm in such a tizzy over what is happening in life that I feel like I have

to get a lot in every week but anyway thank you so much for joining me. As most of you

know who are listening to the podcast this week I'm in the midst of launching my book

Help I'm Drowning. Well also as most of you know we have just gone through all of the

leaving of our of the United States from Afghanistan and I know that that has actually touched

the lives of some of my friends whose husbands were in military there and this is the week

that there was the terrible storm in Louisiana and in New Orleans and then the fires are still

going in California and we had a death of a friend last week in a car accident and then

there are floods all over New York City which is where Nathan lives and my kids are all going

through different things overseas and and so I was praying what a tragic overwhelming difficult

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