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At Home With Sally

My Work is Never Finished - Episode 742

At Home With Sally

Sally Clarkson

Kids & Family, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Sallyclarkson

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

I had no idea what motherhood would cost me in time, heart, work, creativity, love, instruction and so much more. And yet, I am old enough, seasoned through the many years to be able to say it is the most profound work I have ever undertaken—to shape real human beings in faith, virtue and purpose in life over days, months, years and decades.

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, welcome to at home with Sally. I'm Sally Clarkson and I have the biggest

0:13.0

privilege in the world to be with so many friends from all over the world who join me every

0:18.6

week to listen to my stories, inspiration, biblical encouragement and I am just so glad

0:24.6

that you're here today. Thanks so much for joining me.

0:37.2

Hello my friends, how are you? Oh my goodness, happy Sunday night. I am in Oxford and I'm

0:44.8

just finished pizza that I often have on Sunday nights and I've been thinking about you all

0:52.7

weekend thinking there's so many ideas in my brain what should I share tonight and I've

0:59.8

been going through a few foundations last week we talked about gentleness and tonight

1:04.7

I'm just going to barely tip my toenails into a whole area that I'll be covering next

1:11.9

week I hope unless I change my mind but about the whole idea of what it means to be a

1:20.5

servant leader. I have to tell you that I'd never heard of this concept in my whole life.

1:26.3

As a matter of fact I had never thought about parenting, I'd never thought about education

1:32.0

or a home education for sure. I just thought people had babies because that's what they

1:38.9

did and that's what Clay and I would do we were older when we got married and we would

1:43.8

have a baby because everyone else did too. So I read a lot of books about birth and birthing

1:50.9

and this and that but all of a sudden when I held my precious little Sarah and I know

1:57.3

it's different for every single mom no one has to feel the same way no one has to be

2:04.3

the same way God knows our personality our stories our preparation but I had I don't

2:11.3

even know if I'd ever held a baby but when I held little Sarah and she had some terrible

2:18.3

problems when she was born and I held her and I just suddenly thought oh my goodness I

2:26.3

am holding eternity in my hands she smiled she looked at me she opened her little eyes barely

2:35.3

breathing because that was her difficulty and somehow some way that's when I began to

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