Hi, everyone. Welcome to At 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 wonderful friends.

This is Sally Clarkson, and I am so glad that you join me today on my podcast.

And I just want to tell you that it is so encouraging to get the letters, the notes, the comments from you, and oh, how I wish I had the time and the

space and the brain to answer every one of you. But I want you to know that your encouragement

and your words mean a lot to me, and I am just so grateful for you. Well, you're finding me today

in Raleigh, North Carolina. And hopefully this

afternoon, I will be on a plane toward home to go see my clay and my Darcy. But I just have lots

to share with you this week. And I'm going to be sharing from chapter one of well-lived and well-lived shaping the legacy of

gratitude and grace reflections from Oxford. And I have lots to tell you about Oxford this week.

But anyway, I just wanted to share a few things first. I was privileged, oh my goodness, I have had the best time.

I was kind of sitting in my little work chair in Colorado for the past few weeks,

and it kept snowing and it kept getting dark.

And I was missing my kids and my grandkids some, and so Clay and I talked about it, and I thought,

you know what, I'm going to provide some delight for my soul because I've been working a lot

and staying in a lot. And so I decided that I would come to Raleigh and have a meeting with several of my staff.

I think there were six of us all together for a whole half day, just working, talking, playing, drinking tea, eating,

having so much fun. And I thought it'll be a great time just to be together and also to plan and work.

But also I can have a membership meetup and I can then spend time with two of my best friends who do work with me.

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