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.

Hi my friends, how are you today?

Welcome to my podcast. I'm Sally Clarkson and I am so delighted to be with you today. This

is a Sunday afternoon in my world and what an interesting week we have all had. But I

was thinking today about when I was first married and then I became a mom. I am so different

than I was then because I know more. I've learned more. I have lived more and so I as I

look at the landscape of culture, my desire as an older woman is to reach as many young

women as I can. As many young moms, as many young whoever, whoever wants to listen to

me with real biblical encouragement, with biblical structures with foundations that took

me many, many years to learn myself. And I think that learning to be teachable, learning

to change, learning to grow was really important to me. My own childhood had been pretty

devoid of babies. And I was, I didn't know what it was like. I only had brothers. I rarely

played with dolls when I was a little girl. Can I admit that? I even, I didn't think so

much about being a mom is being married. I just wanted to fall in love. And I was thinking

about this when I was reading a story that I had journaled about and eventually written

about in a book. When I was talking with one of my children and I had some extra points

for a hotel room. I had rented a hotel room because this particular child, it was joy

had had a kind of a difficult situation that she was facing in a job that she had in

college. And so I rented this hotel room and said, let's get away just you and me because

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