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 wonderful friends. This is Sally Clarkson, and I am so happy that you joined me here today.

I love having a cup of tea in my hand or sometimes coffee. I love talking about life, beauty, literature.

I love walking in the mountains. I love friends. I love home, life giving home, life giving table. And discipleship. I love all things theologically stimulating.

So I am so happy that you joined me today. and I hope that my podcast will be of encouragement to you,

and I also hope that you will share it with other people.

That would be so wonderful if you would do that.

Many of you know that I lived in Oxford for over four years in the past few years, and it was such a wonderful

place in time for me right before my 70s. Now I'm 72 almost. I'll be 72 this summer.

And it was just delightful. I had lived in Europe for a number of years off and on.

And of course, in the UK, the nice thing about being overseas, but having a lot of those values,

is that they also speak English.

The other countries I had to struggle through trying to learn some languages.

But anyway, I loved, loved, loved the walking life. I loved that I was kind of rubbing shoulders with people, with humanity every day.

There weren't a lot of parking places that were free in Oxford because it's a very crowded little city.

And I lived in a suburb called Jericho.

And Jericho used to be this wonderful little town that backed up to the river, to the canal.

And they would develop their goods in the factories and produce lots of different things.

And then they would put all of these goods on the canal boats to easily

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