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.

Hello my friends. I am Sally Clarkson and I'm so glad you joined me at Home with Sally.

I've been getting some lovely comments today about the offer for our membership to people

who can't afford it this year and I do hope that it'll bless many people and again I want

to thank all of you who are part of it and all the fun things we get to do. I am in

case you ever want to picture what I'm doing. It is 539 on a Tuesday. Actually I think

it's a notes of Tuesday. I've been when I'm in and out of town. I don't even remember

what day it is. And anyway I walked a long, long way today. Went to the parks for my first

time. The parks here in Oxford are absolutely amazingly beautiful. All year long is to

such a lovely place to be. And I will probably share some pictures of the swans and ducks

and clouds and lake because I find that when I am out of swords in a way or if I haven't

had time to center when I go into creation, when I walk, when I look at the beauty, it's

as though God the artist is reminding me that every day in spite of all the troubles

in the world, he still allows seasons to happen and he holds the world together and he

still makes beauty through the predictable rhythms of swans and ducks and clouds and

leaves. And so I had a wonderful time and I was with Joel and Joel is such a thoughtful

in the sense of he thinks deeply person. He's also thoughtful as a friend. But we were

talking today about the fact that we have noticed over the years that especially in the

past couple of years, many people are leaving church and they're leaving their faith

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