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 friends, it's Sally again this week. I hope you're having a good week. I hope that

somewhere in the world the sun is shining and that if you are living in the same hemisphere

as me that you're beginning to experience spring that blossoms are coming out and that

you are going to be able to shed your coat pretty soon. It's so funny because living in

the UK in England, it's definitely the experience that you always imagine living in England.

Though we don't get as much rain as I expected, we have learned over years and also we used

to feel this when we were living in Austria and in Poland that there is a kind of a cold

that goes down to your bone when it's moist and in wet outside even if it's not raining.

And the heaters work a little bit differently especially in my older house here and so it

really makes the returning spring a moment of celebration. When it's warm and sunny outside,

you feel like you've been given a new life. And of course I've always heard that spring

is a picture of resurrection. It is a power of life that comes through all of the plants

and all of the trees and through the sunshine and it is a power that cannot be turned

back. It brings beauty and color and life into our lives and that's what the return of

Christ will be like. It will be like the power of spring, something that brings great joy

and something that will come forward and be true and reflect goodness and beauty. And

so that's a little bit of a thought because we are in the Linton season and we're moving

from the direction of realizing why Christ had to divorce to the celebration in just a

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