Welcome to Politics by Faith.

Thanks to being here.

I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving.

I have one final Thanksgiving message.

And then after that, we'll move on to our one month long analysis of the movie,

It's a Wonderful Life, which we saw on Thanksgiving night.

Last year was the first time we watched It's a Wonderful Life from start to finish.

And if you asked me two years ago, if I've ever seen It's a Wonderful Life, I'd be like, oh yeah, definitely, I've seen it because I've just seen bits and pieces my entire life. But that doesn't got it. That's not the whole thing. Seeing bits and pieces of It's a Wonderful Life is not the same as seeing the movie. It's a wonderful life. And it's my favorite movie and it's incredible.

And I want to encourage you to watch it now and not wait until Christmas. Because if you watch it on Christmas Eve, you kind of miss, you miss a whole month of opportunity to really reflect on it throughout all of Christmas. So go watch. It's a wonderful life right now with the whole family. It's amazing. And we will do more.

It's a wonderful life analysis. I wasn't kidding, by the way. I'm not a month. It's worse.

I'll sprinkle it in now. But I have one final Thanksgiving message.

It's just about the pilgrims. We could talk about all the time.

What's going on here is some people sent some stuff from the old world to the new world and it didn't make it so william pierce wrote a letter back to the people who sent it and they

said we lost all your stuff i don't know if we lost it or you lost it just got lost just the way it goes

so here's what he said. Dear friends,

you may know that all your beaver and your books of your accounts are swallowed up in the sea.

Your letters remain with me and shall be delivered if God bring me home. But what should I more say?

Have we lost our outward estates? Yet a happy loss if our souls may gain. There is yet more in the Lord Jehovah than ever we had yet in the world.

Oh, that our foolish hearts could yet be waned from these things here below,

which are vanity and vexation of spirit.

And yet we foolishly catch after shadows that fly away and are gone in a moment.

Would you have had that mentality if you were traveling to a new world with nothing but an axe and a Bible.

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