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 friends, happy tea time Tuesday. I look so forward actually every week to tea time

Tuesday. I hope you enjoy it too because it's kind of makes me feel like I came up with

this podcast idea that makes me feel kind of like we are a community. Like you are sitting

with me in my living room and we are being friends and I think about all of you so very

often and actually in the past few quiet times this week my morning routine, you can see

a little picture of me in my living room at home but my morning routine of sitting with

the candle with my music, there's my little bird in this picture. And actually tea time

for me is about taking time and when I look at all that I've been working on lately,

for many years literally since I was in my mid-twenties I have come to be a person who

is a firm believer in tea time, mentoring, tea time discipleship, tea time friendship.

And it's for me about taking time to sit with a friend or one of your children who are

your friends, to carve out peaceful moments where friendships can flow, deep conversations

can be shared where the soul is enriched by the precious time that you've stolen away

from the busyness of life and where hearts are touched. So when I have my quiet times

lately I think about you and I pray for you because you are the people that God has put

into my living room so to speak and I pray about what should I do today. Now many of you

in the past few weeks wrote me to say how much you loved the podcast on gentleness and

how much it meant to you. And so today is really a follow-up to the podcast. I needed time

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