The first thing you need to know is that SallyClarkson.com is not just “about me.”
To be clear, my site is not just about what I am and what I do, but about who I am and who I follow—a Christian woman, wife, and mother, living for Christ each day and sharing my journey of faith. That’s “about” it. However, if you’re anything like me, your interest in what I have to say will be inseparable from who I am. So, let me give you a brief “About Me” glimpse into my life.
There’s nothing I enjoy more than being with my family. Every time we gather for an afternoon teatime with candles, music, and a tasty morsel—whether it’s just Clay and me, or the whole tribe—we re-enact a tradition that has occurred thousands of times in our more than four decades of being the Clarkson family. We talk, laugh, debate, cry, pray, and dream together about who we are, what we believe, what we’re doing, and who we’re becoming on our journeys of faith. I think perhaps all that tea has been a spiritual catalyzer for us! But even fueled with my strong Yorkshire Gold English tea, I could not have imagined as a young woman the life that lay ahead for me.
Clay and I began our journey of marriage and life together on August 30, 1981. Like every young couple, we had dreams and hopes of what our future might hold. However, I could not foresee the ministry journey ahead for us, and for me—missions and church, starting Whole Heart Ministries, training families in church workshops, encouraging mothers in sixty hotel conferences over twenty years, serving moms and families internationally, writing or co-writing more than two dozen books, and personally encouraging countless women online through my blog, podcast, and “Life with Sally” membership community. And all that happened while I was also being a full-time wife and mother, a homemaker of the nineteen homes we’ve given life to in ten cities, and a home educating parent of my four precious children. We’ve moved from “we’ve only just begun,” to “look what God has done.”
My children are all grown now and making their own places and marks in the world and around the world, but I still want to be around them—enjoying who they are, learning from what they’re learning, sharing in their journeys with God (learn more about them on ClarksonFamily.com). I’ve always been a visionary idealist, probably a bit to my family’s patient chagrin, so I will always have more thoughts and ideas to share, projects to pursue, people to meet, and things to do. Just a quick look at this website will reveal that I still enjoy sharing my heart on my podcast, offering help and hope on my blog, staying involved in my “Life with Sally” online community, and connecting with followers on Instagram and Facebook. And of course I still have several new books to share over the next few years.
But even in this full and new season of my life, I’m making conscious choices to slow down so I can enjoy some of the simpler things in life—long walks, good friends, grandchildren, reading, traveling, fellowship at lifegiving tables, and of course, those catalyzing family tea times. I’m still on the same journey of faith I began in college when I accepted Christ and have continued with Clay and my children as a family. I will be on that journey until it ends and I meet my Savior face to face. So, whether you’re an old friend, or a new one, I’m glad you’re here to share this journey of faith and hope with me. It’s a long road and I welcome your company.
(PS: If you want to read the longer story of our lives, visit the “Our Story” page on WholeHeart.org.)