Hi everyone, welcome to Add 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.

Hi my friends, it's Sally Clarkson. Oh my goodness, I've got to turn up my microphone.

I was welcome to my podcast Tea Time Tuesday, which I really enjoy. And I just thought that

I would kind of fill you in on where I am and on my weekend and catch you up. But this

is going to be a short Tea Time Tuesday. I believe because I am exhausted. I had so much

fun being at Wild and Free. Literally almost a thousand women. I spoke, I signed books

for there was a line of hundreds of women. I don't know why they were so patient to stay

to meet me. I was very grateful for them, but I they stood in line for about three hours.

And I stayed up way too late. I had meetings in my room. I met with friends. I spoke and

it was such fun. As a matter of fact, I kind of feel like, and I don't know if you're

like this or not, but when I look at the the past few years, I think that inadvertently

I've kind of got used to suppressing my real feelings. I mean by that, I thought, okay,

we can't have conferences. We can't meet sometimes at my house because people have

COVID. You know, it's going to be a little bit of a lonely or time. And when I actually got

to Wild and Free and and had so many people there after several years, I thought, oh, my

goodness, I was starving for fun and fellowship and women. And so it was really a delight to

me. I wonder if some of you have felt like you've never quite made it out of COVID yet.

That's kind of how I felt. I even returned to the US and you know, for these few weeks.

And I've seen friends here and there, but I'm not plugged into anything regular at the

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