{"id":4480,"date":"2022-10-04T16:03:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/?p=4480"},"modified":"2022-10-04T16:03:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:03:44","slug":"called-by-god-fox-news-ainsley-earhardt-helps-families-discover-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2022\/10\/called-by-god-fox-news-ainsley-earhardt-helps-families-discover-the-gospel.html","title":{"rendered":"Called by God, Fox New\u2019s Ainsley Earhardt Helps Families Discover the Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ainsley Earhardt, co-host of Fox News\u2019s \u201cFox and Friends\u201d segment has been promoting her new children\u2019s book by Zonderkidz, I\u2019m So Glad You Were Born: Celebrating Who You Are <\/em>and talking about the faith that has driven her to write. During \u201cFox and Friends\u201d last week, Earhardt revealed the phrase\u2019s origins from her mother. \u201cThis is kind of my message to my mom. That I love you and I\u2019m so glad you were born \u2014 and thank you for all the sacrifices you made,\u201d she said. She had written two other children\u2019s books based on things she had learned from her father and now it was time to focus on something she had received from her mother. She also revealed how the phrase has made it around to coworkers at Fox, noting how one of the first times she had said it was on co-host Steve Doocy\u2019s birthday. \u201cAnd he was kind of taken aback,\u201d she recalled. \u201cAnd it was completely true. I was so glad that day had occurred and that he was born, because I felt God was using him to change so many lives and because we all love him so much.\u201d The expression then became common amongst others on the team. Earhardt also credited Doocy\u2019s wife, Kathy, with encouraging her to write another children\u2019s book with the title.<\/p>\n

The book focuses mainly on the love Earhardt has for her own daughter, Hayden, but Earhardt said it had a message for every child. \u201cWe can say to them, \u2018I\u2019m just so glad you were born. Thanks for blessing my life.\u2019 And moms and dads can write a note in the book itself about why they love their child so much and how they’re grateful for the years they\u2019ve spent together,\u201d she said. She stated she wanted to encourage children to believe in themselves and to know that they are loved. In a prior interview with Tampa Bay Parenting<\/em>, Earhardt spoke of her own upbringing, saying, \u201cThe best, most valuable imprint my parents gave (and still give) me is the importance of faith. They taught me to believe in God and His love and mercy. I go to church, not because I have to, but because I need to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earhardt was also on The 700 Club <\/em>promoting the book. When asked about why it is important for children to read about God\u2019s purpose in bringing them into the world, she said, \u201cBecause we are going to have hard times. We\u2019re going to have ups and downs in life, and you\u2019re going to have valleys and you\u2019re going to have mountains. But through it all, God says, \u2018Take heart, I have overcome the world.\u2019 And I love that Scripture, because it reminds me that, no matter what you\u2019re going through, He has already overcome it.\u201d She also talked about her own purpose in sharing the Gospel in her work. \u201cI really feel like God chose me for this position because He wanted me to be bold and wanted me to share the Gospel. And Fox allows that and now, with these children\u2019s books, sharing the message to children to the next generation, which is so important, is just such an honor.\u201d Earhardt\u2019s book is now available online<\/a> and wherever books are sold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Ainsley Earhardt, co-host of Fox News\u2019s \u201cFox and Friends\u201d segment has been promoting her new children\u2019s book by Zonderkidz, I\u2019m So Glad You Were Born: Celebrating Who You Are and talking about the faith that has driven her to write. During \u201cFox and Friends\u201d last week, Earhardt revealed the phrase\u2019s origins from her mother.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":4486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nCalled by God, Fox New\u2019s Ainsley Earhardt Helps Families Discover the Gospel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Fox News co-host Ainsley Earhardt uses her new children's book as a way to help families discover the gospel.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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