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, I hope you're doing well today and it's such a fun time for me to be here

with you, Sally Clarkson here and I am going to be talking today about chapter 12 in the

Life Giving Table and I really absolutely love, love, love this story because now that I've

lived a thousand years with my children, I use that a lot, don't I? Oh well that's me. Now

that I look at them and realize some different things that have really made deep impressions

in their lives, I love telling you this story and as I look at this whole sequence of different

traditions that I have been sharing with you from our own family, what I really want you

to remember is that you can make up your own traditions, you can make up your own regular

memories from the cuisine that you love, from the decor that is a part of your own creative

reflection from ideas that you have and I really think that part of my fun in life is being

able to cultivate and create an atmosphere, a place that celebrates life and beauty and goodness

and the creativity of God as well as a place to disciple and to love and to pray with my children

and so those are the components that make all of these stories accessible. You can be simple, you can

use paper plates or napkins or no fingers, you can sit on the floor on a mountain in a picnic,

on with a table with fancy china with nothing at all, it's really not about the exact, I have to

follow what Sally or what someone else says, I have to be a Martha Stewart, that would be way,

way, way, way too much pressure wouldn't it? But it's about you, you are a person with opinions and

tastes and a personality, you have your own story, if you have four little ones under six years old,

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