A warm thank you to all the beautiful people who turned out for An Evening with An Author series at The University Club at Vanderbilt. On a hot, summer night no less. Storms threatning and then skies clearing, we talked about the experience of writing and living Praying for Strangers: An Adventure of the Human Spirit.

After many, many long miles on the road it was great to share stories from the road from the coast of Charleston, South Carolina (where the lovely people of the street saw the Praying for Strangers poster and began walking into the stores asking for Prayer thinking it was just someone offering to pray for a stranger) to the West coast where people approached prayer and strangers from a variety of ways – all warm and wonderful.

The fact is and remains, this thing we call prayer is a real power that has the potential to make a significance difference in this world. And there is no question that it has the power to make a difference in our  very, real everyday lives.

A thousand new faces, what feels like miles and miles of new places this year and the most recent in my own backyard for the author event – and you, precious reader, continue to shape me like soft water with your comments, smiles, prayer requests, buying books for friends, asking me to inscribe them because and because and because – we share this common story.

Thank you for turning out time and again, near and far, in person and by notes/emails to tell me what I am discovering to be truth.We all need each other in the most simple, wonderous ways.