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, how are you? I feel like weekends are sometimes the hardest times for

us during this COVID because I have regular schedules on Monday through Friday. I have

things I'm doing and commitments I make and publishers I talk to and all these other

things that are going on in my life. Calling my kids, working out their travel plans, doing

different things. But for some reason, things just kind of fall apart over the weekend. And

before I know it, it's time for me to have made one more podcast. And I'm telling you,

I have been through so many different thoughts about so many different things lately that

I hardly knew what to talk to you about today. And I wanted you to know that I have lots

of my mind. I want to share in the next months. And it says Joel once said he was sitting

in the car with me. And he said, Mama, I'm never going to forget all of the wonderful things

that you've told me before. I just can't remember any of them right now. And if you had an

empty brain like that, so my brain's been a little bit empty because I thought, oh my goodness,

I have so many friends right now and friends through the internet, a lot of you and people

from all over the world who are really going through a lot. And some of them are just exhausted,

some are down some are scaring their kids because they've been losing their temper, some

have husbands who are depressed, some, you know, what different things. And so I thought,

I don't want to be tried with you. I don't want to just say, well, suck it up and trust

Lord because really a lot of life is time when we just really need to have the friendship of

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