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 is Sally Clarkson and I am sitting again in my little bedroom chair at my daughter Sarah's house. It's been such a wonderful

week and I am just getting to doing this podcast the night before I am just getting to doing this podcast the night before I need to put it up for all of you all.

So thanks for your patience.

I am just so happy that you are here and I decided today even though I've been going through

aspects of God's character from the 24 family ways, I thought today I might take a little bit of a break and just share with you some of the things

I've been thinking experiencing doing and I hope it'll be of a lot of fun for you.

I want to tell you all about Austria because I kind of had a deja vu

a week last week. As many of you know, I was 46 years ago, that makes me very old.

I forayed into a world of faith by going over to Austria to help begin a student ministry in

Eastern Europe, communist Eastern Europe when the countries were still ruled by the Soviet Union.

And I went over as a young woman by myself, I had to live with a couple of people I'd never met before,

was on a staff team of a bunch of strangers,

had to study German and then eventually studied Polish where I also moved into the country,

learned to be in my first real experience of living long-term in a foreign culture.

There's the second largest United Nations in the world in Vienna,

and so many, many of my friends,

I actually started a Bible study there, and many of my friends were from different countries working for their country in the United Nations,

and I had to learn about life.

I had only had an experience in America up until that time.

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