Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I am back with you today. Welcome, it's Eric Erickson here across the nation.

Delighted to have you. Really glad to have you with me. I got a, I'm going to begin with something out of the box before we get into the news because I was so profoundly moved by it. And I think you will be as well.

Some of you will cry.

Some of you will cry.

Trust me.

But it is not my, I don't have a desire to move you to tears.

But in all honesty and candor, I will be back.

I'm going to leave after Friday and be gone, but we'll be back on December 23rd for my Christmas show, as I do every year.

You know, when I started this thing, they said, don't do it after I did a good Friday show.

And then so many people demanded it.

Now I do a good Friday show and I do a Christmas show.

I'm not sure,

for those of you listening on WSP, if it'll just air on Friday or in the past, we've repeated

it through out Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I have no idea on that. But I will tell you,

a couple of years ago, I decided, you know, instead of me just talking for three hours, why don't I interview some theologians, some pastors, and talk just about the pastoral

angle, particularly at this time of year, people struggle mightily with depression.

I want to be very open and honest and transparent with all of you.

I am struggling with depression right now,

with just a malaise. And it honestly has a very simple reason. The sun, I haven't seen it since last

week. And it has affected my mood. I can tell. Every day I get up hoping for sunshine. And we haven't

had sun since sometime last week. And it has

suddenly, in the last couple of days, I'm really mindful of it. You don't know whether it's

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