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 it's the last few days of advent, the time

when we remember what it's like to wait and hope for Christ. Even as the Jews did and

the whole world was waiting for good news, it had been in a fallen world. We know and

we are reminded again this year of just how fallen our world is, what it means to be

separated from God, to be shallow and self-centered and petty and to see evil going on in the

world every day and yet to see that as Christ saw this. As he said, I heard the prayers of

my people. He basically looked out as he did when he was on the earth on the multitudes

and had compassion on them. He said, I, I will be the Savior. And how did he come? The

same way all of us came into the world through a mom, a mama and through a family, a marriage

and he grew up as we did and he brought about his light, his love, his goodness and his

salvation on the earth to show us his compassion, his redemption, his restoration and forgiveness.

So we're entering the last few days of that. But I thought today I'm probably going to

skip a couple of podcasts in the next week because I'm just going to spend time with my

children and my family and my friends and really focus on the things that I believe that

they need from me. But I thought I might read a little bit today. Some of you have said

you really like it when I've been reading lightly from some of my books. And many of you

know the tradition that I'm going to be reading about today and many of you have never heard

of it. But I wrote a book called The Life Giving Table as well as the fact that we mentioned

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