I’ve;traveled across the country and back in less than;36 hours. I am in my house now on a Sunday afternoon, in a bit of a daze about how much has happened in those 36 hours.

After sleeping for most of the flight, my hosts drove me from Fort Meyers to Port Charlotte. There were thunderstorms brewing all around us in the 45-minute drive. They were apologizing for the rain and I was loving it. I live in the desert. This is cool. They’d gone to the new Life Teen camp in northeast Georgia this summer. They couldn’t stop talking about Matt Maher playing music, and what a difference it made in the lives of their teens.

The people in Port Charlotte were so lovable. Just before Mass several of us came together and prayed. I just wanted to hug them all and thank them. People came from five or six churches for the evening. During Mass, I enjoyed watching the clouds through the windows and the palm trees flutter in the wind.

Before my talk, the band played music for a half an hour. One of the members introduced a song that was written by Matt Maher. She asked all the people there to pray for Matt’s health, that he’d overcome his Hepatitis C.

Wow. I hung out with Matt Maher last night, and now I am on the other side of the Gulf of Mexico, and there are hundreds of people praying for him. They meant it…they really love him. I was in awe.

My talk went well. I just made it up as I went along. God does his thing.

My cousin Merrill drove down for the evening, and she and I had dinner afterwards. She and I are a year apart. That was always weird when we were young and they drive up to the mountains to visit us. Now we are growing up and it’s really cool. We laughed and talked for two hours.

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Now I am at home. I went to Home Depot and bought some lighting to brighten up the front of my house. I think I’ll put this afternoon. It’s not even 1 PM and I feel like I fit a whole week into a day and a half.