Hello and welcome to Bible Stories. We are your hosts, Matt Mullins. Hello. Hey, Matt. And my name is Todd Hamins. And we're two ministers slashed

buds who love telling the stories of the Bible and we cannot wait to share another one with you. In fact, we are

back talking about the life of Jesus. Matt, would you care to share? That's right. Welcome back, Todd. We're so

excited to have you here. Yes. You were away on retreat. And you went to Florida right before Ian, right

after Hurricane Ian. Yeah, right before. And as soon as I landed in Florida, I got a text, a

notification from American Airlines that said, Hey, your returning flight to Texas has been canceled.

So I got to hang out for like three additional days. This is great. But we made it through.

Well, I'm glad I'm glad you're all right. Your mom is in Florida. My parents are in Florida.

And everybody's okay. Everybody's property is okay. Everybody's good. That's right.

One of my favorite establishments in my hometown is a twisty tree and it made it through as well.

I feel good about that. It is crazy the damage. We're praying for those folks who are impacted. It

is wild. And the hurricane was supposed to come straight to the town where my parents live. And

they were anticipating, I think it was, so they're on the Gulf. And they were anticipating, I think

it was like five miles inland of flooding. Like it was just ridiculous. And what in fact,

what happened to them was people on the river, the water was taken out. You know, Hurricane

sucks water up and then moves someplace else. So like there were canals that were like basically

empty. It was bizarre. It really was fascinating. So I was in Jacksonville. So the hurricane hit

in the southwest corner of Florida. Literally like five, six hours north on the Atlantic side. So it

hit on the southwest corner, which is the Gulf of Mexico. I was in Jacksonville and we got a lot

of wind and rain. But what was fascinating was there was so much water through Jacksonville

Beach, through all the inter Coastal there. Because of what you're talking about. It was like water

that was dumped out. The tide was so high, which is just weird because the storm was literally in

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