Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here on my Sirius XM show every Monday at 6 o'clock. We started this segment a little over a year ago called Gratitude Monday. And people just call in with amazing stories of things that they're grateful for. And it's been a great way to start

the week. There's been times when there's been a lot of pressure to skip it because we have a really

important political story to hit. And there was one time I did right before the election,

maybe like a week or two before the election, and I skipped it. I was like, oh, we got to cover this instead.

I got this email.

I wish I could find it.

Someone sent it to my Breitbart email, Slater at brightbart.com, and that goes to Outlook and Outlook, like, forget it. I'll search for something. And it's like, do you mean this? It's like, no, not even close. what are you talking about so i can't find this email but this person said slater you can't skip gratitude monday we got to get our heart right what good is the news

if our hearts aren't in the right place and i love that email so much if you want hard

politics at six a m on a monday east coast time which probably my bosses would prefer I do, then I don't know.

That's just not what we do anymore because the politics don't have a context if you don't

start with gratitude first because who cares about anything?

If you're not grateful for life, you're not grateful for this country, what does the news matter

then? Why are we fighting

or caring about anything? So setting our hearts right every Monday at 6 o'clock puts everything

else in the proper context that it actually needs. Anyway, we had a great caller today. I believe

his name was Ed, North Carolina. And he told the story, and he told it beautifully. I'll do the very quick version. He was walking to Starbucks to get some stuff for his family. And he saw a homeless man crossing the street at the same time. And he was trying to stay away from the homeless guy. The homeless guy was also maybe going to Starbucks too. And they were going to meet at the same time, and he didn't want that to happen. So he started going faster, but then

the guy was going to beat him. So then he went really slow to try to avoid him. And he stood in a place in line and he didn't have to talk to it. But then he felt this nudge. He called it a nudge of God. and what do he say? He didn't say nudge. I like the word nudge. God was telling him, something like that. I call it a nudge from the Holy Spirit.

But same idea that he should start a conversation with this man. And he so badly didn't want to do it.

He so desperately did not want to interact with this person in any way at all. But the Holy Spirit

told him he should. And he did. They had a little conversation

and the homeless man said that you are a breath of fresh air. And the caller, Ed, got emotional

on the radio because I think it was because he was confronted with his selfishness and his not wanting

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