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 happily in Oxford.

Hello my friends is Sally Clarkson and I am happily in Oxford, one of my favorite places in the world, probably my second home if not competing with the first, but I am just so delighted to be here with my children, my

grandchildren, lots of friends. After spending so many years in a place,

you definitely attach to it if it's Oxford.

And so I just finished having

having dinner with my family and I thought I better get a tea time

Tuesday recorded because I want to tell all my friends about my week and what's

happened. I kind of have a shorter podcast tonight and I have

a little bit different sort of a podcast to give to you but hopefully you will

understand I've had such a fun week I think it's been one of the happiest

most memorable times in my life because I have really been thinking a lot lately about real

relationships, quiet, my walk with the Lord, my intimacy with my children and with my husband.

And I've been studying it in light of all of the stress and all the anxiety and the overactivity and the fears and that just the demands that people

place in their lives.

And so I had started this a year to go, but I have predetermined that at certain times in my life,

I am just going to put everything aside and focus on relationships and see if I can make an investment, a deep

investment of love, encouragement, spirituality, fun, blessing, spoiling

into my most favorite, my most prioritized relationships so that I can be the hands of God's generous love to them

in a time when I think all of us need that rest and break. And so I got here, got to enjoy my grandchildren for a bit, and

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