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Welcome to the Eric Mataxis show. Back again, eh? Glutton for Punishment, eh?

When will you ever learn? Now, here's the host that you hate to love, the man who was the reason

your friend sponsored your last intervention, Eric Mataxis. Hey folks, welcome to the program.

A lot of times people ask me, Eric, why do you live in New York? And I say, well, one of the

reasons I live in New York and do my show in New York is because people come to New York

to do other shows. And then I can kind of, you know, grab them and say, why don't you come do

this show? Such is the case. Thank the Lord. Today, I'm sitting here with one of the daughters

of Billy Graham, Ruth Graham. Welcome to the program. Thank you, and I'm also Ruth Graham's

daughter. How does that work? I never, I never met your mother or your father.

I heard your father speak in person a couple of times, but I've met you a few times. I can't

even remember. We were in a car ride together. Some place going someplace. Was that in Texas?

Thank you for remembering. But you're unforgettable, Eric. Okay. Well, you are one of the five children

that's right of your mother and father. And you are out with a book, which is what brings you to

New York, to talk about it. The book is called Transforming Loneliness, deepening our relationships

with God and others when we feel alone. So the first and obvious question is, why did you choose

to write a book on the subject of loneliness? How did that present itself to you? Eric, I have lived

most of my adult life alone. And I have had some profound experiences of loneliness. One recently,

six years ago, when I went in for surgery, and it had to be redone, and the girls dropped me off

at the hospital, which was far away from home, and they left me, and I knew I was in good hands,

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