Think_a_Minute

Is anyone out there a fan of Max Lucado? (If you have no idea who I'm talking about, the rest of this post won't make much sense.)

I had a chance to chat with him for a few minutes last weekend. Really a very nice man.

As it happened, last weekend I was in Abilene, Texas, and while watching the news Friday evening, I learned that he was going to be guest speaker at some society event that evening at Abilene's Civic Center.

So I jumped into my car and went down and crashed the party.

That's not quite as crazy and impulsive as it sounds; Max and I have had a couple of exchanges in the past, but we'd never met. I figured the odds of us both being in the same place at the same time were pretty remote, so I should take advantage of the opportunity.

We're not exactly best buddies or anything--he had only the vaguest recollection of our previous exchanges--but my impression of him was that he's every bit as nice in person as he comes across in his writing.

Here's Max and me. (I'm the cute one.)