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. How are you? Oh, my goodness, it's working. Sometimes I don't shut down my computer for a very long time, and then I have about a thousand windows open, and my podcast doesn't always work. Welcome to At Home with Sally. And it looks like today, and I have a friend outside. It is a deer. We have

had up to 14 deer in our snow yard in the past few weeks, so he is accompanying me today.

Well, I'm so glad you join me. And for those of you who are regular listeners to my podcast,

thank you. Thank you for sharing it with your friends. Thank you for

sending me so many letters. I'm just so encouraged by you. And today I have so much to share with you.

I think it'll be a really fun and encouraging time. I just got off the phone with, for those of you

who know, one of my children, three of my four

children live in the UK and one lives in Manhattan. So I miss them terribly because we are

best friends. So I talked an hour and now I'm going to have to rush through all of this

great content and good thoughts that I've had today because I've been kind of storing up all week

long and thinking about you. So here we go. I was thinking a lot about how just it's been kind of

sad in the world. It's been a little bit scary in the world. It's been,

we've had catastrophes, we've had fires, and we've had a helicopter crash and, um, and another

crash. We've had wars and rumors of wars. We've had all sorts of people on all sides politically making comments and being stirred up by what's happened in the past few weeks.

And I choose never to really talk about politics because I would really rather center on just my walk with the Lord, your walk with the Lord, the ideals that

we share in common in this arena. But I did want to talk to you about a couple of things because

I think that one of the things I've realized in the past couple of weeks that I'll be talking

a little bit about today is how important it is for us to refresh our vision, to gain such a view of life that we think about what it looks like to invest light and beauty and goodness and love and grace and peace and forgiveness into this world

...