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Hello, America. It is Eric Erickson here. The phone number is 8779774-25 if you want to be on the program.

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Right now, though, I want you to, if you can, if you're willing, text the word

donate to 33777, and I'm going to send you back a link to the Florida, volunteer Florida

non-profits link for hurricane disaster relief. a lot of damage down in Florida.

We don't know there have been media reports about the death toll.

We don't actually know the death toll.

We don't actually know just how bad it is.

We can presume it's bad because of the number of people who chose not to evacuate.

We can presume that it's not going to be good.

At the same time, we just simply don't know yet the extent of the damage.

We don't know yet the extent of the situation with people there. We have some vague

sense of the numbers of people who stayed put, but it's just a bad situation. So pray for the

people, Florida. Prayer actually does matter. Let me just pause for just a moment and say something that I probably shouldn't.

You know, I occasionally do talk about faith and I try to bracket it off and do something in a segment at the end of the show where I do a good Friday

show. I do a Christmas show. And otherwise, I segment it there. You all know my worldview.

Don't hide from it. I've been to simmer. I haven't finished. I've got to go back. I've been dying

to go back and just life has been crazy. But I just, in all honesty, I don't know that you or I spend enough time on our knees in prayer.

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