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, Sally Clarkson here. I'm welcome to my podcast. I look so forward

to speaking with my sweet friends online. I get so many letters from you all and by the

way, thank you for all the birthday wishes, the prayer wishes for my going to see a physician.

For those of you who are listening to me for the first time, I'll tell you just a little

bit about myself. I just had a birthday and turned 68 years old and I feel like I'm moving

into the what would a wise woman say from all the years of her life. And I just love doing

this podcast. I have an author of 24 books. I have four children and they are adult children

and many of you know them because they are online. Sarah Joel, Nathan, Joy and I have

in law, I have a son-in-law and a daughter-in-law and three grandchildren. And much of the time

for the past year and a half or so, I have lived in Oxford, England. Three of my four children

have been spending time there and my grandchildren live there. And also I've spent a bit of time

there. My husband, Clay and I have. And so we have had the opportunity to be working there

in ministry with different people as well as continuing our own work all over the world

through whole heart ministries. And so we love it because a couple of my children have

studied there. I got to know Oxford very well. I took care of one of my grandchildren

while my daughter finished her masters in theology there. And so it is a second home to me

and to Clay. And so the past few weeks I won't go into the whole story but ends up that I was

in quite a bit of pain on one of my legs. And so for many weeks we thought it was sciatica

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