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, how are you doing today? It's Sally here and I am sitting in my little, I

have a small library in my house in America in Colorado and I'm sitting in here recording

for you this afternoon and I just can't wait for my cup of tea. I think that it's

a right now as I'm recording this, it's almost 3 o'clock my time. And this is the time

when jet lag hits me. I just kind of want to go take a nap and curl up and not wake up for

hours but then that would mean I wouldn't sleep tonight. So as many of you know at this

point I just got back from Oxford where I live part time and I'm home in America and it's

so strange. I've lived in Oxford often on for the past three years and this time I'm

really noticing more differences than I did before. So it's kind of put me into a time

of questioning and wondering and thinking, okay what am I going to do and what are my priorities

and what am I going to write and what am I going to participate in. We have lots of interesting

things coming up in our lives. So I thought I would tell you a little bit about that today.

But what are some of the, there's many differences and those of you who have lived internationally

know that there are a lot of differences between living in America and living overseas.

One of the first things I think of is that a lot of things that I'm surrounded by in

America are much much bigger. For instance the grocery stores are much bigger, the cars

that people drive are much bigger. The houses are usually much bigger and where I live

I'm in suburbia which means house house house house house house. But I live miles away from

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