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, it's Sally Clarkson. I hope you're having a wonderful,

wonderful day. This is my second attempt at giving you a Monday podcast. I got

several letters from people last week and they said, Sally, Sally, please don't stop

your Monday podcast so I recorded one and sent it your way and when we played it back

there's nothing there. So anyway, I hope that we're going to be able to get this to you

today and that you'll be able to listen to just a little bit that's on my heart. I thought

I'm in such a busy time, season of life that I don't have time to prepare and research

and look into all the scriptures and do all the things that I was doing before but I

did just want to read a simple something today to you as an encouragement. I'll probably

do some, I'll call it Monday Bible study but I was in several situations in the past

couple of months. I teach two Bible studies a week here in Oxford. I spoke at Walton

Free. I met with my members. I've been meeting with lots of different people and as they've

been sharing their stories with me, I've been kind of deeply touched by their story. One

sweet friend, it was telling me her background of being an alcoholic family with an abusive

father. Another about her family who had several suicides that broke everyone up. Another

who was abandoned by her mother and her father and raised alone with cousins but was an angry

mother. Another one who's mother and father, the culture of their family was screaming and

yelling and being angry. Another one whose family children were addicted to drugs and

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